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Joker Wild

By JAR

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Within the different types of video poker that exist we can find one of the most popular called Joker Poker or Joker Wild. Jokers Wild is a game well known and is preferred by many people and players around the world. The reason for its popularity is because it is a funny and exciting game and can be played quickly permitting fast moving so it has the advantage that you can win more often.

Joker Poker is played with 53 cards: a deck of 52 cards and a joker that serves as a wildcard. With this wildcard/joker in addition to classic hand, are also possible using the same 5 cards, for example, four aces and a joker.

The Joker Poker is a game that shares some similarities with the Deuces Wild however, the Joker Poker has the largest number of winning hands some of them are Five of a Kind and Wild Royal Flush.

Because in this game you can use a wildcard, the chances that wild-card appears is relative but some players said that it could appear in about 10 hands. The joker is a card that can be used to replace any value in a hand, thereby increasing the chances that have a player of winning. For this type of game, there is an strategy that can be useful, it is called the strategy of Jokers Wild which is quite easy to understand.

The strategy proposes that the best way to learn to play this game and properly use the joker it is knowing well the rules and practicing. To achieve this if you do not want to risk your money you can play for free. There is also a range of cards that you could consider to discard depending on the values, you have on the hand.

It is also important to know that there are different versions of Jokers Wild (like almost every game of cards). These versions are called Kings or Better and Two Pairs or Better.

If we talked a little about the pot we find that there are several ways to win. The normal way to win is playing, and beating the other players. However another way to win is when the cards are dealt, the player gets a royal flush already made without a joker we can say that it is a "direct royal flush" if this happens the player will automatically win the pot. This is especially true when playing online Wild Joker, that is why we recommend you to play online as there are more chances of winning.

"Royal Flush direct" means that the combination of cards to create a royal flush, will be achieved without an exchange of cards.