Jacks and Piss Poker Game

Jacks and Piss is a poker game with community cards, with a draw and with wild cards. Four cards are initially dealt to every player. The top card of the deck is then revealed and placed in the center of the table. This card is called Piss Card. It and all other cards that match it are wild in all players hands. Besides, Piss Card is a community card and combines a five card hand together with four hole cards dealt to each player.

Jacks are always wild in Jacks and Piss. If the Piss Card is a Jack, only Jacks are wild in this game. As far as the Piss Card itself is wild and used by everyone, it does not change the relative strength of four hole cards every player has, but as far as all cards that match the Piss Card are wild too, the value of the Piss Card is very important.

Two wild cards are many, especially when each player has one wild card automatically. Therefore, Jacks and Piss is a game of high hands, and a new player must always remember that the relative strength of each hand is much lower in Jacks and Piss than in most other poker games. To get four queens, for example, it is enough to have one queen, one jack and one card that matches the Piss Card. While in a standard poker game four queens can be considered as an almost unbeatable hand, in Jacks and Piss, it is just a good hand that still does not guarantee sure victory.

Jacks and Piss usually is played in Guts format, which is, when the cards are dealt, each player decides and declares whether he wants to stay in or out of the game. The declaration starts from the first player to the left of the dealer and proceeds in the clockwise direction with the dealer declaring last.

Players, who declare out, fold their cards and do not participate in this certain game. Those, who declare in, continue the game, playing the betting round and compare their hands. The player with the highest hand wins, while other players, who declared in but lost place the amount of the previous pot each into the pot. Logically, if more than two players declare in, the pot is multiplied. If there were only two, it remains of the same size. The game is then re-dealt, and all players at the table play for the new pot. If only one player goes in, he collects the pot and no one replaces it. Therefore the game starts from the very beginning with all players anteing into the initial pot.