When to Avoid Wildcards in Baseball Poker

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Now if you are using the rule for the baseball variant that you have to pay for wild cards there comes a time in the hand where the player must decide if making that payment is worth while. Let's take a look here we already had 2 wild cards come out face up and the pot as already been matched twice so where as the pot was four after everybody anted one. The pot has been matched twice and has grown to 16, then another wild card comes off and this player now must decide if he wants to put out the 16 chips to match the pot. That is a very good question because if he does so he will need to know if he has a good chance of winning the hand. Let's look at his whole cards it happens to be a pair of 7s if he buys this wild card he'll be what's called rolled up in 7s. Cause he'll be starting a hand with 3 of a kind in this case you would definitely want to match the pot and buy this wild card because you have a good chance to win the hand. But let's say hypothetically instead of these two whole cards he had these, a 7 and a 4. So if he buys the pot he can have a pair of 7s well, I guess that's okay but what you need to think about is that this 7 and this 4 are of different suites so it's unlikely that you'll be drawing to a flush. They are a 2 gap straight draw so it's unlikely that you'll be drawing to a straight with two other wild cards already out there. Only 5 more possible it is unlikely at this time that if you match the pot you have an advantage of the hand. So you want to think carefully and you want to say I go ahead and fold.

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