Notice there are other anomalies, such as in deuces wild, 4 OAK being dominatingly the most common hand in competition with the more rare flushes and full houses - all against the notion the more rare hand should rank highest. Again, declaring some rank as the wild card seems to be the norm by far, so in fact it might be more proper to declare the RF as highest ranking hand. However, using deuces wild, a 5 OAK is *not* as rare as a royal flush. In the pdf linked below, looking at the charts, the indication for 5 card stud poker using jokers is that a royal flush is indeed slightly more likely than 5 OAK, though nearly the same. Sometimes not hard exactly, for at least one player, if there are enough wild cards!!īut now I have even more doubts about that. It's always bothered me a bit to have 5 of a kind outrank a royal flush in poker hands with wild cards, but I had accepted that on the assumption that if you crunched the numbers, you'd find 5 OAK was in fact the hardest hand to achieve. Recently, I have been playing some Dealer's Choice home poker in these games wild cards are the norm, but never are Jokers used, at least in my experience.

Poker hands what beats what with wild