Seven Card Stud

August 30, 2008

Grinding Online - Low Limit Hi/Lo Stud

Back in my college days, long before the Internet was a gleam in Al Gore’s eye, the game of choice at our all-night poker games was seven-card hi/lo stud. The game was played where the final rounds of betting included a declaring phase, where you would hold one, two or three chips in your hand, indicating your desire to go after the low hand, the high hand, or both ways, fondly known as “the pig”. Any low hand qualified, as long as it was the lowest hand at the table, and, if you were trying to win the entire pot, you had to win both hands, or else you won nothing at all. Read more

February 3, 2008

Razz Strategy Guide

Razz is a game that most people seem to love to hate, and I've never understood why. Granted, most poker players are used to going after the best cards, so a game that plays like Seven Card Stud, with an objective of getting the worst hand possible, might seem, well, stupid. But I love the game, and it's one of the few poker games I've had success at other than that really popular one you see on TV a lot.I usually do well in Razz cash games, and I've been to several final tables of 50 or more players of Razz MTTs. Read more

July 31, 2007

7-Card-Stud 8-low or Better Primer

This is the final installment in the "Mixed Games " series of articles. Of all the games played in HORSE, stud8 (stud hi/lo eight or better) offers the greatest chance for you to develop an enormous advantage over your opponents. Almost no one at the small stakes has any clue how to play this game. A basic strategy will put you well ahead of the competition. Through practice and further study you can raise your game light years beyond the competition.As with omaha8, the object of stud8 is to scoop the pot. Read more

July 8, 2007

Razz Primer

In a previous article, "Mixed Games ," I recommended playing a super-tight conservative strategy in your weaker games while playing a "normal" strategy in your better games. For the vast majority of players, razz is a weaker game. In this article I will provide some basic guidelines for playing razz. The goal here is not to maximize your winnings but to minimize your losses so that you can play to your strength(s). As I said in the previous article, the H-O-R-S-E games at Ultimate Bet and Poker Stars are quite weak and a very basic strategy can reap big rewards. Read more

May 31, 2007

7 Card Stud for Beginners - 7th Street or the River

Well this is the end. You either have the best hand or you don't. If you have followed the guidance for the early streets, you either have a hand or a busted draw. If you have a busted draw, you should simply abandon the hand. Bluffs at this point tend to be -EV and have little chance of success. If you have a hand, you need to determine if you have the best hand. So, reading your opponents cards and actions is the prime consideration.First let's look at those hands that stand to be the best, Full Houses, flushes, straights, etc. BET or RAISE. Read more

May 28, 2007

Seven Card Stud for Beginners - 6th Street

The play on 6th street is the same as 5th street but there are a few situations that should be addressed separately. So many of your actions on 5th and 6th street rely on your read of your opponents' cards, but if you reach 6th street with more than two opponents, the pot odds usually dictate that you should call a single bet with any hand that could improve to the winner. Of course with multiple opponents there are more hands to beat you. Read more

May 18, 2007

Seven Card Stud for Beginners - 5th Street

On this round the betting limits are doubled. If you do not already have a hand that could win, or needs only one card to complete, or a hand that stands to win, you should fold now. A hand requiring two outs should be folded immediately for a single bet. If you call a bet on this round, pot odds are usually sufficient to call all bets all the way to the river. The exceptions are, fold any hand that does not already beat exposed trips. Fold any second best two pair.Ideally you have the best hand now, or you are on a very strong draw. It doesn't matter how you got there. Read more

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