Jacks and Piss Guts Poker

Jacks and Piss Guts Overview

Similar to Spit in the Ocean Draw Poker, Jacks and Piss uses a single community card. The community card is wild, as are jacks. Jacks and Piss is suitable for 3-8 players. The stakes often get quite high, so dealers often put a cap on the pot. Additionally, some dealers add a kitty, which is a hand that must be beaten in order to win.

Jacks and Piss Guts Rules

Before the deal, each player must ante up, placing a small agreed-upon amount in the pot. The dealer then gives each player four cards, face down. He places a single card in the center of the table. That card is referred to as the piss card. It is the fifth card in each player’s hand and it is wild. Additionally, all cards of the same rank are wild. All jacks are wild as well, meaning that there are eight wild cards in the deck and each player has at least a pair. If the piss card is a jack, then only jacks are wild, and the game odds change slightly.

After the cards have been dealt, players opt to stay in or get out, beginning with the player to the dealer’s left and moving clockwise around the table.

All players who have stayed in may return up to four cards to the dealer, and the dealer gives them an equal number of new cards from the top of the deck.

Then there is a round of betting. Money in the betting round goes into a separate pot from the initial ante. Then there is a showdown. The winner gets the money from both pots, while anyone who stayed in before the draw must match the initial pot, whether or not they folded in the betting round.

Another round is dealt and played the same way. Play continues until only one player stays in at the stage before the draw. That player takes the pot and no one replenishes it.