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How the jokers work

A joker has no value of its own. When hands are compared, each joker becomes the card that gives its owner the strongest possible hand, any rank and any suit.

With one joker, look at your other two cards. If they are a pair, the joker makes a trail. If they can belong to the same run, the joker completes the best run they fit, and it is a pure sequence if the two cards share a suit. If they share a suit but cannot make a run, the joker makes a colour, playing as the highest card it can. Otherwise it pairs your higher card.

With two jokers you always have a trail, matching your third card, because a trail beats everything else. Three jokers are three aces.

Because every ace and king is a joker, you can never hold a natural ace or king in AK47. The highest natural card is the queen, so Q-J-9 is the best hand without a joker.

AK47 rankings

Best first, with how often each hand is dealt in AK47. Starred cards are jokers. Compare these odds with a classic game, where a trail comes about once in 425 hands.

Who wins? Worked examples

Each pair of hands below is compared by the AK47 rules. Starred cards in the pictures are jokers.

Betting, show and side show in AK47

Nothing about the betting changes. Everyone posts the boot, blind players bet the stake and seen players twice the stake, and you can pack at any turn. A show is possible once two players are left, and a seen player can ask the previous seen player for a side show while three or more remain.

When hands are compared, every joker is played at its best. A trail made with jokers is worth exactly the same as a natural trail of that rank, so ties are more common than in a classic game. On equal hands the player who asked for the show or side show loses, and equal hands at a pot-limit showdown split the pot.

AK47 tips

• Count your jokers before anything else. Two or more means a trail, and a trail beats about three hands in four even when it is three twos.
• A natural pair is only a middling hand: a pair of Queens beats fewer than half of all AK47 hands.
• A joker plus two cards of one suit that sit close together is a pure sequence. Those are worth a raise.
• With jokers in two hands out of three, expect the other players to hold something. Be slower to call a show with a pair than you would be in a classic game.
• Blind play is cheaper and your chances of a joker are high, so staying blind for a turn or two is reasonable while the stake is low.

Where versions differ

A few tables rank a natural hand above the same hand made with jokers. Here they are equal, and on equal hands the player who asked for the show loses, as in classic.

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