[DL] Stacked decks?

["Leybourne, Brian" <Brian.Leybourne@airnz.co.nz>]

Hi all.

Talking about the 5 suit deck has got me thinking recently. For one
character I have, I don't want to use the 5 suit deck, because the odds of
hands don't change really (except flushes and royal flushes, which get 20%
less likely (-ish)), but I do want to make a stacked deck for the hexslinger
in my posse - he just got a set of magical gloves, and I think their power
will be to alter his chances of getting poker hands etc.

I can make pretty much any combo just by buying more than one set of the
same cards, and mixing/matching. Any ideas?

I was thinking that it might have FOUR jokers (three of them black - this
would likely be the taint *grin*) but there are other possibilities also..
maybe have more than four of some ranks, or make all Aces wild (red normal,
black with some taint) or have two sets of Clubs and Spades and remove
Hearts and Diamonds altogether, or something like that (making flushes etc
more common but not affecting other combinations).

Maybe the gloves belonged to Wild Bill and so the Black Aces, Black eights
and Jack of Hearts are all wild?

Any other ideas? I still want it to be a standard 52+jokers deck (however
many jokers there turn out to be *grin*) so it'll probably take him a while
to work out that it's not a normal deck.

Brian "No quote today" Leybourne.

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Brian Leybourne
NT Systems Administrator
Wang; Air New Zealand
brian.leybourne@airnz.co.nz
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