Anything's Wild Video Poker Pay Table
Anything's Wild
This video poker game earns its name from the fact that you must first designate a wild card before the game. You can pick any card and all cards of that kind will be wild. A wild card substitutes for the card your hand needs to get paid the most. Anything's Wild employs the normal 52-card deck.
Anything's Wild appeals to non-systematic players who enjoy playing by feel. If you are superstitious about numbers, or certain numbers have special meaning to you, this game might appeal to your taste. You don't have to choose the same card every time of course. You can pick a different wild card at other times.
To play Anything's Wild, you first pick the card denomination you want to make a wild card.
Wild Card Odds
Although all kinds of cards each number four in a deck, the payback percentage for each card made wild isn't the same. The best card to make a wild card is the 2 card. The worst choice is the 10 card. If you pick the 2 cards, you are playing Deuces Wild.
Here are the expected returns for each set of cards made wild:
- Twos 96.76% - Threes 96.05% - Fours 95.23% - Fives 94.38% - Sixes 94.23% - Sevens 94.13% - Eights 94.09% - Nines 93.98% - Tens 92.71% - Jacks 93.60% - Queens 94.48% - Kings 95.34% - Aces 95.09%
Cards are unequal in terms of the payback percentage they can give due to their positions in the deck. To come up with these results takes a lot of number-crunching. Why not try it out for yourself? Just remember to always choose deuces or 2's when playing for money.
Anything's Wild Video Poker Play Table
Anything's Wild does not have an unusual pay table—as you can see from the table below. its uniqueness lies in the freedom to choose your wild card.
The pay table is typical of a wild video poker game. The payouts for lower hands are small to compensate for the wild card advantage. Without the decreased payouts for those hands, the house would lose money from this game. Players would win too often.
Hand Payout Natural Royal Flush 800 Four Wild Cards 200 Wild Royal Flush 25 Five of a Kind 16 Straight Flush 13 Four of a Kind 4 Full House 3 Flush 2 Three of a Kind 1