Jacks Or Better strategies can get a little complicated. For a full analysis check our references below, or follow this rough strategies guide:

Keep any hand that already pays. Possible exceptions, by potential value, are:

• Hold four card Royal Flushes to make Straights or Flushes.
• Four card straight flushes, inside or outside.
• High card Pairs rank here.
• Three card Royal Flushes.
• Four card Flushes.
• Low Pairs rank here, trying to build Three Of A Kind.
• Four card Flushes.
• Four card Straights. Hold inside Straights only if you've got three or more high cards (J, Q, K, A).

If you've got nothing worth money, here's a general strategy, in order of preference:

• Keep any two suited high cards. Discard unsuited high cards.
• Four mixed-suit high cards:
  -keep any three suited, toss the unsuited.
  -otherwise, keep them all.
• Three unsuited high cards:
  -keep all three of K-Q-J.
  -with A-K-J or A-Q-J, discard the A.
• Keep any two unsuited high cards.
• Keep any single high card.