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www.skypoker.co.uk – In serious poker games, players always use a standard deck of 52 cards, but in home games sometimes, players will decide to use wild cards. Sometimes these can be depicted by certain cards such as ‘deuces wild’ or ‘one eyed Jacks’ and there are usually two wild cards to a deck if playing in this fashion.

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The role of wild cards is to basically become whatever card you wish it to be in order to complete your hand. Sometimes you get ‘Joker’ cards in a new deck of playing cards which are used for the same purpose, and these can be very powerful in a game of poker. You can of course end up with simply a pair when you have a joker in your hand, but most of the time you will make a far stronger hand.

Mike Caro wrote a section in Doyle Brunsons book ‘Super System’ which details the changing odds of making hands when there is a joker present in the deck. The fact that these odds were included would suggest that jokers were used a lot in days gone by, although they have become obsolete in big games these days. personally I much prefer playing without such wild cards, because it makes it far more difficult to work out your opponents hand.

With two Jokers in the deck, a player could make unlikely hands to beat your naturally made strong hand, and in a way this doesn’t seem right. Whatever your opinions on wild cards, I think it is probable they will rarely be used during a game, and if they are, be prepared to see some stronger hands being made.

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