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Plus, If I'm running the numbers right, a flush is actually harder to get than four of a kind.

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There are 8*28 ways to get four of a kind - 8 different ranks of quads and 28 possible fifth cards = 224.

There are 4*8C5 ways to get a flush - 4 suits and (8*7*6*5*4)/(5*4*3*2*1) possible flushes in each suit = 224.


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Yeah, but some of those flushes are straight flushes. If the game still allows ace low flushes, you have 5 straights in four suits for 20 straight flushes. That leaves 204 plain flushes against 224 quads. Even if ace low flushes aren't allowed, it's still 208 against 224.

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It's played with slightly different rules in different casinos, but I've only heard of it being dealt like normal 5-stud. I've heard of Mexican stud games that use the full deck instead of a partial deck, or that make the joker totally wild whether dealt face-up or face-down.

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How is the joker handled in other versions you've seen? As a bug?