(If this is a Kings or Better game, a K or A would be better since with one match it can be a paying hand, but if Two Pair is the lowest paying hand, singleton Kings and Aces aren't generally held.)Why is a card in your hand better than other ranks to get 5oak? Well, it has a better chance than the next card that you will draw if you just discarded five cards because that 1st drawn card might match one of the ones that you threw away.But, don't get too excited it's still a pretty bad hold, but it's just sometimes the best of all the bad choices that you have. If you have a choice of several cards, you often want to pick the one that is the only one of a particular suit, so you have the best chance of making a flush as well. The next table above is based on playing the hand in question the less volatile way. Each of those cards can participate in 5 different straights (E.g., a 7 can be involved in 76543, 87654, 98765, T9876, & JT987). Note: There is a hand in full pay deuces wild (return 100.76) which can be played two ways, with the same expected value, but different standard deviation. The answer is that you have a better chance to make a straight with a singleton 5-T than any other cards. The deuces, that is the cards with a face value of 2. Faygo's right as always.But you might question why a 5-T instead of a 2-4,J-Q etc. bonus deuces wild video poker is essentially a game of video draw poker, but with an interesting variation.
