What is ‘loose Deuces’?
The term loose deuces refers to a variation on a single player, five card draw video poker game. The aim of the game is to create the best winning hand possible from a starting hand of cards by taking advantage of deuces as wild cards. Special payouts are triggered for four deuces, five-of-a-kind and wild royal with 2’s. Typically played virtually online, loose deuces is a fast paced poker game where multiple hands can be played at the same time and double or nothing bonus rounds can quickly increase the winnings pot.
‘Loose Deuces’ Explained
The object of loose deuces is to build up the best possible poker hand, working from the original five-card hand dealt by the dealer. The player opens the game by choosing the number of hands they wish to play in each round, adding their starting credit via chips. The cards are dealt and the player must decide which hands to keep and which to discard in the hope of better cards in the next deal. One cycle of this constitutes a full round of play.
Like most variants of poker, a player wins when they build any of the following: a royal flush, four deuces, wild royal with twos, five-of-a-kind, four-of-a-kind, three-of-a-kind, straight flush, full house, straight or flush. The main difference to straight poker lies in the use of deuce cards (which are cards with a value of two – the lowest in a standard deck). They become wild cards in loose deuces poker. This means they can be used as substitutes for any other card in the deck, creating new winning hands such as wild royal with twos and any five-of-a-kind. The trick is to keep hold of deuces cards for as long as possible, never discarding them as they can be used in place of any card in the deck to create a winning hand. A player should also always discard one of two pairs of cards as pairs won’t win the hand, but three or four of a kind can.