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Re:Slack Poker Bot by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @09:11PM (#10156891)
Are images even necessary, anyway?

Unicode has playing card codepoints (the full 52) and playing card house codepoints (️, ️, ️, ️).

Edit: What the hell? Hacker News stripped the Unicode characters?! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156894

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Re:Slack Poker Bot by CharlieHess on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @10:08PM (#10157051)
You can't control the font rendering in Slack (it's Lato, at a certain size). The Unicode cards are far too small to read.
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Re:Slack Poker Bot by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:21PM (#10157251)
I did think of that. But you could use the symbols for the houses and pair them with a number/letter.
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