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Upgrading a hand type only affects the score when exactly that hand is played, not hands that contain others. For example, upgrading high card only affects the hand if there is no other hand available.
Conversely, jokers that specify 'hands containing x' can apply to wider hands, e.g. hands containing 3 of a kind' is 3 of a kind, 4 of a kind, full house etc.
IIRC the only exception to this is that 4 of a kind doesn't contain 2 pair.
The multiplier in game info only applies to the hand played. Otherwise every hand would trigger also high card multipliers. For example flush house would trigger flush house, full house, flush, threes, pair, two pair and high card and that would be broken.
The hand being played is shown on the left under the multipliers.
Makes sense. I wasn't sure because Two-Pair also procs individual Pair jokers too even though it's a "Two"-Pair
Jokers usually have wording like "contains a Pair". Two Pairs contains a Pair but isn't a Pair itself