Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Draw Poker—Deuces Wild
Draw Poker—Deuces Wild This is standard Draw Poker, Jackpots, or Jacks or Better, with the four deuces wild. Deuces have unlimited wild powers and each deuce can be counted as any card a player desires to call it. The deuce may even be counted as a duplicate of a card already held by a player. Therefore the highest-ranking hand a player can hold is five aces. A player should take extreme care in calling the rank of his hand because the rank called must stand, contrary to the practice in standard Draw Poker, where the cards speak for themselves. Take, for example, a hand like this: two of clubs, two of diamonds, two of spades, six of hearts, ten of hearts. The average player very often calls four tens instead of a ten-high straight flush. Deuces and natural cards have the same value.
Four deuces wild and other wild cards
Four deuces wild and other wild cards that number four or more cannot be analyzed with the same accuracy as non-wild cards. The four wild deuces have too many different mathematical probabilities because the probabilities depend upon the denominations of the four deuces claimed by the players.