The player then makes a decision of whether to retain this hand or discard a few cards. To start the game, the player clicks on the deal button after which the computer deals out a hand of five cards. The game is played with a deck of 52 cards (standard pack) along with the two Jokers, making it a total of 54 cards in each deck that is played. The presence of wild cards in this game results in quite a few formations of very strong poker hands like four–of-a-kind or Five-of-a-kind. Since they are wild cards, they can replace any other cards to form a winning combination regardless of the suit and value of the card that they are replacing. As the name suggests, it is a game of video poker where the Jokers are treated as wild cards.

Joker Poker Video Poker is also commonly called Joker Wild Poker or Joker’s Wild Video Poker.