Note that you’re probably not going to win with anything less than 4 or 5 of a kind, but given the sheer randomness of the game, you might not want to fold too soon.
My brother-in-law had never played a poker game with jokers before, so he was suitably horrified. Then, stealing an idea from Fluxx, I decided to add in the jokers as the “Rotate Hands” card. I added that if you were dealt the suicide king face up or in the hole, you had to fold at the first available chance (a favorite add-on rule of two other nephews). At that point, I was ready to fully embrace chaos, and I combined them! This time, we started with 7-card stud, then played follow-the-queen, then low-card-in-the-hole.
Whenever we get together with my brother-in-law and his family, we inevitably play poker. Tl dr: Seven-card stud, low card in the hole is wild, follow-the-queen is wild, suicide king has to fold, face-up joker means you have to shift your hole cards to the right.
