HOW TO PLAY
The strategies and payout tables may change from casino to casino, but if you know how to play Joker Poker one way, you’re able to adapt your hand and playing skill to learn the other ways that can be won on – providing you with a more in depth experiencing, as well as a learn as you go experience.
The hands are divided into two groups. The first group will not have the joker within the pile, the second group will contain the joker. If the player is given a winning poker hand out of the five cards given, then he has to hold onto those five cards.
If you’re given four of a kind, you have to make sure to throw out the fifth card in the pile, so that you can hope to obtain a joker on the five card hand.
If there is a royal or straight flush, the fifth card has to be discarded to try to make the cards work with or without the joker in the hand.
If it is three of a kind, the remaining two cards that do not match them have to be discarded.
Two pairs, the fifth card is discarded so that the player can try to obtain a full house that uses or does not use a joker within it.
In any other case, where a poker hand is not given – the player has to discard all five cards in their hand.
When the second group of cards is then passed around, the player has to take as many cards as they need to hold onto five. So if you had three, you must take two, or no cards, you have to take five and so on.
The cards have to be kept in the same manner as above, except if you have the joker – which you can then use much like a wild card in the hand. The player with the highest poker hand during game play wins. Even if the person has just the joker, and no poker cards – they can then put down the joker and see if others have winning hands over this.