Wild cards are cards that can take on any value in a hand. They may be extra cards in the deck (jokers), or certain standard cards in the deck may be designated wild (for instance, all 2s could be wild cards). If all 2s are wild, and a person had the hand AA228, they would have four-of-a-kind.
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How does a wild card (53rd) affect the odds of making the standard poker hands?
By standard poker hands I mean:
high card
one pair
two pair
three of a kind
straight
flush
full house
four of a kind
straight flush
EDIT: five of a kind
I'm curious if the ranking of hands should change with the presence of a wild card added as a…
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Are there any 5-card-draw games with the joker online?
I used to play a lot of this in gardena before holdem became popular. I did find some draw without the joker at poker stars a few years ago, but there were very few games.
Is there any 5-card-draw with the joker (aces, straights, and flushes)…
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Who wins this game of high low Hurricane with wilds?
In a game of high low Hurricane with deuces and 2 jokers wild, who wins between one player with Ace joker and the other deuce deuce?
Here are the rules we were going by:
Players must declare whether they are going for high, low, or both
When going…
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Does a royal flush with 2 wild cards beat a royal flush with one wild card?
We understand that, when playing with wild cards, 5 aces is best overall. This means that one of the "aces" is actually a joker, and that the hand has, say, two aces of hearts, or spades, or whatever. This follows the principle that a joker can be…
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