@jeremykong,
To give someone "cards, spades and a beating" seems to have meant, around the end of the 19th century, to decisively beat or surpass them. You read this in one of those Sherlock Holmes fanfiction stories you keep quoting from without attributing. The phrase also appeared in The Minneapolis Journal for August 12, 1901, in a humorous dialect story about a dispute between a cat and a manhole cover: "a cat infuriated
can give the manhole-cover cards, spades and a beating and never half try at that."