Deuces and Joker Wild Tips and Tricks

Added: March 13, 2022

When you play at Microgaming-powered online casinos, the best wild card video poker style (in terms of potential payout) is Deuces and Joker Wild. While this game does offer one of the best potential payout rates for any of the video poker games that they offer, it also has a lot of complicated scenarios that players have to learn. Here we're going to look at three example hands and use them to illustrate some important tips and tricks that you need to know before you try to learn this game on any sort of in-depth level.

For our first hand, let's look at AsKhQd5d2h. What you'll notice here is that we do have a single wild card, but other than that, we don't have much to go on. Note that discarding the 5d only is useless here since this game has no payouts for single pair hands or even two pair hands. So the first option players would have is keeping a single pair with something like Q2 for a 0.85x payout on average. However, this is wrong. Keeping just the two is the correct play with its 0.98x average win. If you're uncertain why this is, remember that the first card dealt is going to pair with the 2 just like the queen does when keeping Q2, but it also gives you a chance to draw another wild card which adds to the value.

Let's look at AsAhQh6h2s. Your options here are three of a kind or a flush draw with a single wild card. Note that the flush draw with the wild card also gives you options for making three of a kind, so that's a stronger scenario than a flush draw with no wild cards. Here the flush draw (with a single wild) is worth 0.98x on average. With that as a given, the AA2 combination is a 1.66x payout on average which is an important number to know in this game.

A slightly different hand is AsAhQhJh3h. Most players see AA or the flush draw as the two ways to go. AA gives you 0.55x, and the flush draw is much better at 0.81x without any wilds. However, the best option is actually the AQJ three-card royal draw for a 1.20x payout rate. The five wilds in the deck drastically help the value of this draw, and that's critical to understand.