The common notion that 'natural' hands are more 'difficult' to obtain than hands using wild cards has to be discarded. So if you have more than one wild card, or the ace and a wild card, then you can have a 'double-ace' flush or 'triple-ace' flush, if you want to think of it that way. In the case of flushes, the wild card(s) should always be treated as aces. That is why 5 of a kind becomes possible, and is, incidentally, the best hand. Duplicates obviously do not matter, because a wild card is always going to be a duplicate of another 'natural' card in the deck. If you are going to play with wild cards, then you have to accept that wild cards are just that: wild. People often get hung up at home games with the arbitrary notion that a 'natural' hand trumps a 'wild' hand. This is actually my understanding, and the correct interpretation I believe. In my view, if you allow 5-of-a-kind, you have to allow other screwy hands, like:Ģ wilds + 963 spades = flush, AA963 (each wild used as ace of spades), which beats Two flushes, AK987, say, one natural and one that uses wilds, would split the pot. Whether a card is 'natural' or 'wild' should have no impact on ranking.
