Lowball (poker) pair hands defeat two pair or trips, etc. No-pair hands are compared starting with the highest-ranking card, just as in high poker, except that the high hand loses. In deuce-to-seven low, straights and flushes count as high (and are therefore bad). Aces are always high (and therefore bad). For example, the hand 8-5-4-3-2 defeats 9-7-6-4-3, because eight-high is lower than nine-high. The hand 7-6-5-4-2 defeats both, because seven-high is lower still. The hand 7-6-5-4-3 would lose, because it is a straight. Aces are high, so Q-8-5-4-3 defeats A-8-5-4-3. In the rare event that hands with pairs tie, kickers are used
Dead man's hand in popular culture known as the Dead Man's Hand and use the eponymous cards as their insignia. In , just before Vagabond dies on an infiltration mission, he loses a critical hand of poker with a full house of aces and eights against Maniac's four queens. In the 90th Case of the Facebook game, "Criminal Case", the player finds a set of poker cards with 2 black aces and eights, which allows the player to incriminate the killer as someone who plays poker. In the crew Stacked Deck's insignia includes the ace of Spades and an unknown black 8, two of the five