A “standard” deck of playing cards consists of 52 Cards in each of the 4 suits of Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs. Each suit contains 13 cards: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King. Modern decks also usually include two Jokers.

♠ There are a total of 52 cards in a deck.

♠ There are 13 ranks of cards. These ranks include the numbers 2 through 10, jack, queen, king and ace. This ordering of the rank is called “ace high.”

♠ In some situations, ace ranks above king (ace high). In other situations, the ace ranks below the 2 (ace low). Sometimes an ace can be both high and low.

♠ There are four suits: hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. Thus there are 13 hearts, 13 diamonds, 13 spades, and 13 clubs.

♠ The diamonds and hearts are printed in red. The spades and clubs are printed in black. So there are 26 red cards and 26 black cards.

♠ Each rank has four cards in it (one for each of the four suits). This means there are four nines, four tens and so on.

♠ The jacks, queens, and kings are all considered face or picture cards. Thus there are three face cards for each suit and a total of 12 face cards in the deck.

♠ And two jokers.