Jack Or Better

Directed by Robert Sidney Mellette. With Jack Wallace, Nathan Anderson, Matt Landers, Vincent Guastaferro. Jacks Or Better is a Dark Comedy about a man who kills his wife in the kitchen so he can play poker in the living room. Jacks or Better - Understanding the Hands. High: Any card that is a Jack or higher. Low, on the other hand, refers to all cards that are lower in value than a Jack. Examples of high cards include Ace, King, Queen, and Jack, while low cards run from 2 through 10. Royal Flush: Refers to five sequential cards of matching suit starting with 10. Jacks or Better is one of the most popular video poker formats.This has been the go-to version of the game since video poker terminals hit casinos and bars. It is based on draw poker, when you get a single draw and aim to hit jack-jack or better.

Jacks or Better is a virtual poker game played against the machine. The objective of the game is to obtain a five-card poker hand that contains at least a pair of Jacks or better, to the maximum of a Royal Flush. What is new about this game is that it has the look and feel of a computer game rather than a traditional video poker game. You get to adjust the amount of hands that are in play per round. What does this mean exactly? It means you get to alter between a single hand and up to five, 10 and 25 hands.

Five cards dealt. Initial betting round can only be opened by a player holding a Pair of Jacks or higher. A player can only win the pot if that player is holding cards that are worth a Three of a Kind or higher. If no player can open the betting round, or if no player can win the game, then each player re-antes and the cards are redealt by the player to the left of the dealer.

Variations

An interesting variation to this game comes from Dave Meichsner. Any player who folds throughout any point in the game is out of the game until it’s over and somebody has won. If the game is re-dealt because nobody could open with Jacks or nobody could win with Trips, that player that folded is not dealt back in on subsequent re-deals. This helps keep people in the game.

Jacks and Back
If no player can open with a pair of Jacks or better, then the game is played as Lowball, with a draw and final betting round.

Jacks Or Better Rules

A less popular version of this game states that on the first hand, if no player can open with a pair of Jacks or better, than the game is re-dealt as Queens or Better, Trips to Win. If nobody has Queens or better to open, then it becomes Kings or Better, Trips to Win, then Aces. After that, if the game continues, then it is back to Jacks or Better, Trips to Win.

Jack Or Better