Editing Stripped deck (section)

==In poker variants==
Stripped decks are used in certain [[poker]] [[List of poker variants|variants]].  The earliest form of poker was played with only 20 cards.<ref>Parlett, David. [https://www.parlettgames.uk/histocs/poker.html Poker] Retrieved 18 October 2015.</ref> The Australian game of [[Community card poker|Manila]] uses a piquet deck, and [[Stud poker|Mexican stud]] is played with the '''8'''s, '''9'''s, and '''10'''s removed from the deck (and a joker added).  This may require adjusting hand values: in both of these games, a [[List of poker hands#Flush|flush]] ranks above a [[List of poker hands#Full house|full house]], because having fewer cards of each suit available makes flushes rarer.

A hand such as '''6-7-J-Q-K''' plays as a [[List of poker hands#Straight|straight]] in Mexican stud, skipping over the removed ranks.  Some places may allow a hand such as '''10-9-8-7-A''' to play as a straight (by analogy to a [[Wheel (poker)|wheel]]) in the 32-card game, the '''A''' playing low and skipping over the removed ranks (although this is not the case in Manila).  Finally, the relative frequency of straights versus [[List of poker hands#Three of a kind|three of a kind]] is also sensitive to the deck composition (and to the number of cards dealt), so some places may consider three of a kind to be superior to a straight, but the difference is small enough that this complication is not necessary for most games. Similarly, a [[List of poker hands#Full house|full house]] tends to occur more often than a [[List of poker hands#Flush|flush]] in a piquet deck, due to the increased frequency of each playing card rank, creating a change in poker combination ranking.

[[Five-card stud]] is also often played with a piquet deck.  In lively home games it might work better to only strip three ranks ('''2'''s through '''4'''s) with seven or eight players; with only two or three players '''7'''s and '''8'''s could be stripped as well, leaving the same 24-card deck used in [[euchre]].  In any of these cases, a flush should rank above a full house (in a 24-card deck it is actually rarer than [[List of poker hands#Four of a kind|four of a kind]], but is rarely played that flushes are superior to four of a kind).  Stripped deck five-card stud is a game particularly susceptible to cheating by [[Poker collusion|collusion]], because it is easy for partners to signal a single [[hole card]] and the relative value of knowing the location of a single card is higher than with a full deck.