A Texas Hold 'Em game with two jokers in the deck

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I can't tell you the %, but I'll take the joker for sure. I'm pretty sure it's a favorite even without a second card.

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I did a quick, but crude, "simulation". Using a standard deck, giving one player A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] and the other Joker + 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], and cycling through the remaining 49 cards to create a total of 49 hands in which every other card appears 5 times on the board (so the distribution is roughly even and fair) the results are:

AA wins outright : 15 times.
Joker alone wins outright : 20 times.
Joker wins only if it has the 7 to back it up : 14 times.

Again, this is crude but it's accurate enough to demonstrate that the Joker needs a backup card to be the favourite over AA.

[Chris Callahan]

I didn't see that anyone did this so: Here's the result of my simulation:

The 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]-Joker has 76% equity against A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

--- Chris Callahan