Car talk puzzler picking the highest poker hand

[Folly]

Discourse has revealed that this is quite the old puzzle.

I swore I would never do this...

…but I have to. You see, I heard this riddle… No! WAIT! Come back! You see, I heard this riddle, and then I heard the answer. And I don’t believe it. I don’t think that the answer is really the answer. So, can you help me? Here it is: *My wife and I were sitting at the kitchen table the other day, when she notices a deck of cards. It was from the night before, when I was teaching the boys how to play poker – trying to win back some of the money they keep borrowing from me. She says, “I’d li…