is video poker with all four 2s as wildcards. A wild 2 can substitute for any rank to complete a hand. This single rule rewires the entire strategy.
The hierarchy:
A (no wilds) pays 800-for-1. Four Deuces pays 200-for-1. A Wild Royal ( with wilds) pays 25-for-1. Five of a Kind pays 15. Three of a Kind is the minimum paying hand — pair payouts are gone.
Two-pair pays nothing in standard . That's the biggest mental adjustment — in , two pair is a routine win; in Deuces, you'd rather break two pair to chase a higher hand most of the time.
The full-pay tier: look for 25-15-9-5-3-2 on the variable rows (Wild Royal / 5OK / Straight Flush / 4OK / Full House / Flush). That paytable returns 100.76% with perfect play — the only commonly-available positive-return game in the casino. Most casinos offer the worse 25-16-13-4-3-2 (NSUD, 99.73%) instead.
strategy: when you have no deuces, the strategy looks like with all the low-pair logic deleted. With one or more deuces, you almost always them — they're the most valuable card in the deck.
Key points
✓All four 2s are wild — any rank substitute
✓Three of a Kind is the minimum payout (no pair payouts)
✓Two-pair pays nothing — break it for better hands
✓Wild deuces are the most valuable cards; almost never discard them