Wildcard Games ( poker )

 

A wildcard is a card that can take on any value, usually the value of a card you need to make the best poker hand. Wildcard games are very popular among friendly neighborhood poker games. If "deuces" are wild then every deuce in the deck can take on any value. If you have three aces and a deuce, then you can declare the deuce to "be" an ace and you automatically have four of a kind. In games like baseball, 3's and 9's are wild, which means that there are 8 wild cards in the deck - usually resulting in four of a kind or a straight flush.