Pirate Hold’em

Basic Info

Type: Card game
Players: 2-10
Playtime: Indeterminable
Requires: The Deck of Sailors

Suit Value Order

1. Major Arcana (Aka: Tarot Deck)
2. Swords
3. Hearts
4. Skulls
5. Coins

Make note of

Jokers are wild and can be equal to any other non-wild card major, minor, or red ace.

The Fool is the highest value wild card.

The whale is worth nothing.

Optional Black Spot

If you play with three or more players, you may choose to include the black spot as the 86th card which is worthless in scoring but must be used when your hand is revealed to swap with any card from another players hand. Thus, giving them the black spot and claiming their card.

Overview

That’s a fine Deck of Sailors you’ve got there.
Wondering how to score hands in an all out 85 card game of poker?
Play it like Texas Hold’em with the following rules for ranking hands!

Preperation

Remove the Victorian Clambake card, the tarot reference card, the black spot, and QR code card.

Hand Rankings

  1. Enhanced Arcane Royal Flush
    The Fool + Joker + Joker + The World + The Magician

  2. Flush of a kind

    The Fool + Joker + Joker + Red Ace + Ace of same suit

  3. Five of a kind

  4. Royal Arcane Flush

    (21, 20, 19, 18, 1)

  5. Royal Flush

    (A, K, Q, J, C)

  6. Arcane Flush House
    (Ex: Tower or better Major Arcana, two wilds, and a red ace paired with an ace)

  7. Flush House
    (Ex: Two wilds, any card, and a red ace paired with an ace)

  8. Straight Flush

  9. Arcane Straight Flush

    All variants of paired aces are ranked in the following order

    - Wild to complete the red ace hand (With a fool outranking a joker)

    - Wild to complete the hand

    - Red aces to complete the hand

    - Standard aces

    - Magician to complete the hand

  10. Five Aces

    - Red Aces wild

    - Aces wild

    - Red ace('s)

    - Four standard suit Aces and The Magician

  11. Four Aces

  12. Four of a Kind

  13. Full house

    Wilds > Red Aces > Aces > Etc.

  14. Flush

  15. Arcane Flush

  16. Straight

  17. Arcane Straight

  18. Three of a Kind

    Joker + Joker + The Fool > All others

  19. Flush Pair

    Ace + Wild

    Ace + Red Ace of same suit

  20. Two Pair

  21. Pair

  22. High card

    Fool > Joker > Major Arcana (XXI - XVI) > Red Ace > The Devil > Ace > Card Value (XIV - II / King - Two) > The Magician