Poker 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
A standard 52-card deck possesses
A standard 52-card deck possesses 2,598,960 possible five-card hands. A 53-card deck with the added bug (joker) possesses 2,869,685. The difference is 270,725 additional hands in a 53-card deck. The majority of these hands use the bug as a high card. The bug livens up the betting quite a bit and furnishes the players with more playable one- and two-card draws and more good hands, in general, than one gets in standard Draw.
A player making use of the strategy
A player making use of the strategy exactly as described under standard Draw in this California variation is sure to be rewarded with a losing game.