What were death cards in Vietnam?

During the Vietnam War, some U.S. troops falsely believed that Vietnamese traditions held the symbolism of the spade to mean death and ill-fortune and in a bid to frighten and demoralise Viet Cong soldiers, it was common practice to leave an ace of spades on the bodies of killed Vietnamese.

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In respect to this, why is the card called jack?

It evolved to mean 'young manservant or henchman'. The word 'Jack' was in common usage in the 16th and 17th centuries to mean any generic man or fellow, as in Jack-of-all-trades (one who is good at many things), Jack-in-the-box (a child's toy), or Jack-in-the-Pulpit (a plant). People also ask how many ways are there to draw 3 kings from a deck of cards? To answer a), we note that there 52 ways to choose the first card, 51 ways to choose the second card, and 50 ways to choose the third card, for a total of 52*51*50=132,600 ways.

You can also ask how many hands contain exactly 3 queens?

There are 4C3 * 48C2 = 4,512 hands with exactly three queens. Keeping this in consideration, how many hands contain exactly 3 kings? 24 five 24 five-card hands contain exactly 3 kings and 2 aces.

Consequently, how many five-card poker hands containing three of a kind and a pair a full house are possible?

A full house is any three of kind with a pair. So take 24 and multiply by 13 (13 ranks for the three of a kind) and by 12 (12 ranks for the pair, note you used one rank to make the three of a kind). So the number of full house hands is 13x4x12x6=3744. Moreover, how many 5 card hands contain exactly 3 aces? If you want to find the number of possible five-card hands with exactly three aces, there are 4 choose 3 ways of holding 3 aces with 48 choose 2 ways to select the remaining 2 cards for the hand (the final ace is not available as a remaining card in the deck), leaving us with only 48 cards instead of 49 to choose from

Correspondingly, what is a 4 of a kind in poker?

Four of a kind, also known as quads, is a hand that contains four cards of one rank and one card of another rank (the kicker), such as 9? 9? 9. 9? J? ("four of a kind, nines"). It ranks below a straight flush and above a full house.