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Tuesday, 11 March 2008
It can be lot of fund to play poker with wild cards because wild cards give a happy twist for any hands that gets it. There are several variations of games that involve wild cards to play poker. A wild card refers to selecting any card as to play the role of a joker.

It can substitute any card that you do not have. Most of the championship games and tourneys do not use wild cards.

High card and low card wilds- Let us consider with playing a seven card stud with having Jack to be the wild card for the game. Anybody who gets a Jack can use it to make a hand. Suppose you have A-2-3-$-5 and all others are suited, you can use the Jack to make a straight by replacing it for 4. However, to form a flush you need to learn what your game rule dictates like requiring to having Jack of the particular suit to form the flush. Most provide for the number and not for the suit. Most that play poker with wild cards normally do not consider face cards to be wild as they are high rank cards and they usually choose one of the low cards to play the wild.

Multiple wild cards- Based on the number of wild cards required players also tend to allot more than one card for the wild. They say like all jacks are wild or all 8 and 9 are wild etcetera.

Joker as wild cards- It is also not unusual to use the joker to play poker with wild cards when you are trying play poker with wild cards in any games. Every 52 deck card comes with 2 jokers and this card can be used to play wild.

What do more wild cards mean? The more number of wild cards you get, the more advantageous you are for X-2-3-X-X if you are going to get 3 wild cards you can win the hand with making a straight. You replace the wild card for all that you do not have!

 You can make anything with wild cards- Say you are waiting to make a pair or 3 or a kind or 4 of a kind and is short of one card. If you are getting a new card, you can substitute it for the rank you miss to make a pair or a 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind or five of a kind. You can use the wild cards to make straight, full house or flush.

Wild cards clashes when you play poker usually happens when two people compete to split the pot with high rank or low rank; the tie for such is broken by considering the player with less number of wild cards to split the pot.

You can play poker with Wild card in online games too. It can be a lot of fun to use wild cards as it makes moves less complicating than to play poker without wild cards.

For more information about poker with wild cards:

http://poker.about.com/od/pokerglossary/g/wildcard.htm

http://www.pokertips.org/glossary/w/WILD+CARD

 
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