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Chapter 1: Seven Card Stud
In the game of Seven-Card Stud poker,
every player attempts to make the
best fivecard hand from his seven cards. The highest hand
out of all the players wins.
While the majority of Seven Card stud games do not result in many big hands
on the poker pot, you can acknowledge and see which hands
tend to get the big wins, and how the best hand changes from
one betting round to another A player can make the
hand he is hoping for yet not have any chance of winning.
Betting Structure
Each time, before any cards are dealt each player posts an ante, which
is a fraction of a bet. Each poker game begins as a chase
for the antes, so this money seeds the pot. The dealer then
gives each player two cards, which are dealt one card face down, along with one face up. The lowest
exposed card is required to make a small bet of a predetermined denomination.
This bet (and the person who makes this bet) is called the bringin. If two
or more players have an exposed card of the same rank, the determining factor
is the alphabetical order of suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades.
The player to the immediate left of the bring-in has three options.
He may fold
his hand, call the bring-in, or raise to a full bet. In $20-$40 games, the antes
are usually $3 and the bring-in is $5. The player to the bring-in's left can either
fold, call the $5 bring-in bet, or raise to $20 -which constitutes a full bet.
If that player folds or calls the bring-in, the player to his immediate left has
the same options. As soon as someone raises to a full bet, subsequent players
must fold, call the full bet, or raise again. Once betting has been equalized, a second card is dealt face-up and another
round of betting ensues. This time, however, it is in increments of full bets.
The player with the highest-ranking board cards (cards that are face up) acts
first.
Seven-Card Stud is a game of contrasts. Start with a big pair, or a medium pair
and a couple of high side cards, and you want to play against only a few
opponents -which you can achieve by betting, raising, or reraising to chase
out drawing hands.
If you begin with a flush or straight draw, you want plenty of opponents, and
you'd like to make your hand as inexpensively as possibly. If you're fortunate
enough to catch a scare card or two, your opponent will have to acknowledge
the possibility that you've already made your hand or are likely to make it at
the earliest opportunity. If that's the case, he may be wary of betting a big
pair into what appears to be a powerhouse holding such as a straight or
flush.
That's the nature of Seven-Card Stud. The pairs do their betting early, trying
to make it expensive for speculative drawing hands, and those playing draws
are betting and raising later - if they've gotten lucky enough to complete
their hands.
Most of the time you will throw your hand away on third street. Regardless of
how eager you are to mix it up and win a pot or two, Seven-Card Stud is a
game of patience.
If you like to fish from the shoreline, daydream, meditate, or engage in other
contemplative pastimes, Seven-Card Stud is right up your alley. But if you
lack patience - or can't learn it -this game will frustrate you to no end.
Many players lose money because they think it's okay to play for another
round or two and see what happens. Not only does this usually result in players
bleeding their money away,the very fact that they entered a pot with less
than a viable starting hand often causes them to become trapped and lose
even more money.
Before making a commitment to play a hand, you need to be aware of the
strength of your cards relative to those of your opponents, the exposed cards
visible on the table, and the number of players to act after you do. After all, the
more players who might act after you do, the more cautious you need to be.
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