Complete Deuces Wild Tips and Strategy
If you are serious about making money in video poker, you have to learn to play Deuces Wild correctly. Here are tips and strategies for winning this game.
Deuces Wild Tips
- Never hold on to any single card except a two. - Always hold on to a two. - If you have to choose between a pair and a straight or flush draw, choose the pair. - Do not hold just one card with a two. Holding a card is justified only if there is more than one card to hold. - Play only Deuces Wild games that pay 5 for 1 (or at least 4 for 1) for a 4 of a kind as most of your payouts will be from this hand.
Deuces Wild Strategies
To use these strategy cards, just glance down until you find the hand that corresponds to what you are dealt. Then hold the cards described. The hands are from highest to lowest.
4 Deuces Strategy
- Draw one card.
3 Deuces Strategy
- Wild royal flush - 5 of a kind - 3 two's
Two Deuces Strategy
- Wild royal flush - 5 of a kind - Straight flush - 4 of a kind - 4 cards to a wild royal flush - 4 cards to an open straight flush - Two two's only (draw 3 cards)
One Deuce Strategy
- Wild royal flush - 5 of a kind - Straight flush - 4 of a kind - 4 cards to a wild royal flush - Full house - 4 cards to an open straight flush - 3 of a kind - Flush - Straight - A straight flush 4 card draw with one gap* - 4 straight flush 4 card draw two gaps - A two with suited A34, or A35, or A45 (all suited - A 3 card royal flush draw, no ace - 3 card straight flush draw, no gap - 3 card royal flush draw with ace - Two only (Draw 4 cards)
No Deuces Strategy
- Royal flush - 4 card royal flush draw - A straight flush - A 4 of a kind - A full house - A 3 of a kind - A flush - A straight - 4 cards to a straight flush - 3 cards to a royal flush - A pair - 4 card flush draw - 4 card straight draw, no gaps, but not 3456 - 3 cards straight flush draw - 456 suited - 345 suited - TJ suited - 3 cards to a straight flush with two gaps - TQ suited or JQ suited - 346 suited, 356 suited - 4 card straight draw with a gap - None of the above - draw 5 cards
* A gap here means a draw to an inside straight.