If you hold a singleton, a 5-tree is always possible, but if you draw 5 new cards, the first card might match one of your discards (happens more than 30% of the time). It's generally better to hold a singleton than draw 5 new cards partly because a 5-tree pays so much in this game. This will not win too often, but it's the best you can do if you don't have any of the better holds listed above.But the most important strategy: keep your fingers crossed and hope for 5 of a kind.
This is not exact but fairly close to the order of holds when you have no pairs and no joker in AC Joker Wild:Straight Flush 32A, 4xA, 5xA-Kx9 or 3-card Royal headed by an Ace*Straight 432A, 5xxA-Kxx9Straight Flush 54-T9 or Royal JT*3-Card FlushStraight Flush 43,53-J9 or Royal QT,QJ*Straight 543-QJTStraight Flush 32,42,52-Q9 or Royal KT,KJ,KQ*Singleton 5-T**Singleton 4,J**Draw 5 new cards *With this game's pay schedule a royal flush is just another straight flush** When you have 2 or more candidates, hold the card that doesn't have another card in the hand of the same suit, then hold the one that is farthest from other cards.
