Talk:Wild Card (card games)
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[edit] Wild card (card games)
As I work on links to the wild card dab page, it seems to me that there needs to be a broader description of wild cards that reflects that their usage is not limited to poker. In the meantime, wild card links in entries for other card games are being directed here. Planetneutral 05:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
I've gone ahead and requested a move to Wild card (playing cards) as an effort to incorporate links from the wide variety of non-poker card games that use wild cards. The content of the relocated article would change very little. If you have an opinion about this move, now's the time to voice it. Planetneutral 06:17, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
- Support idea to move but I don't like the parenthetical disambiguation in in the nomination. I don't remember if it is still in the MOS (or where it might be) but in general, titles should avoid containing active verbs like the (playing cards) would have. My suggestion would be Wild card (cards) or more likely Wild Card (card games). 205.157.110.11 14:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I think that's fair, although playing is used an adjective in this case (although that may very well be what the rule is referring to - I plead a touch of ignorance there). I used Wild card (playing cards) because it was the pre-existing article that had been redirected to this page. If there is no further debate, I could move it to Wild Card (card games) without the redirect conflict that required me to request the move from the admins in the first place. Appreciate the input. Planetneutral 15:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. Vegaswikian 09:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Weaker hands lose frequency?
I kind of disagree with this statement:
"For example, if you have a pair and a wild card, you will always choose three of a kind rather than two pair. This causes three of a kind to be more common than two pair."
Let's say your hand is KKJ2(wild). The wild card gives you all of the following hands: KKKJ2 (three of a kind), KKJJ2 (2 pair), KK22J (2 pair), KKJ2(kicker) (pair of Kings with any kicker). Those hands are ALL your option. If 2 pair were a higher value in your game than 3 of a kind, you'd choose 2 pair. So it actually doesn't make 3 of a kind a more common hand, it increases the frequency of all hands (since you have 52 options for what your wild card can be), and the player naturally chooses the best option.
-PK9 00:21, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
What I think the creator of the article was ttryign to say is that when you add a wildcard, higher ranking hands tend to appear more often,. This is the result from adding a wildcard to the game.
