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
Strategy in the private game of Five Card Stud, Deuces Wild: You
Strategy in the private game of Five Card Stud, Deuces Wild: You must remember that there are four wild cards, and when the joker is added that makes five wild cards. Therefore hands such as two pairs and three of a kind, which would ordinarily be winning hands in regular Five Card Stud, will most often become losers when an opponent's hand is comprised of one or more wild cards.
To win, you have to reevaluate your playing hand much higher. If a
To win, you have to reevaluate your playing hand much higher. If a pair of jacks was a raising hand in regular Five Card Stud, increase it to three of a kind in this variant. When you do this, you'll come out all right. Wild cards shouldn't deter the tight, strong player because players loosen up and more players stay to the showdown, making for bigger pots.