Are jokers used in poker

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Around 1860, American Euchre players may have devised a higher trump, the 'Best Bower', out of a blank card. In the game of Euchre, the highest trump card is the Jack of the trump suit, called the right bower (from the German Bauer) the second-highest trump, the left bower, is the Jack of the suit of the same color as trumps.

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Imperial Bower, the earliest Joker, by Samuel Hart, c.

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