A Beginning Look at Playing 7-Card Stud Poker
by Thomas Kearns
The game of 7-card stud poker goes back to the very beginning of traditional poker history and is today still a very popular game in casinos and at casual home poker parties as well. Its large following is attracted by its standard structure, familiar to all poker players. Seven card stud rules change slightly from place to place but all are played with a maximum of seven players - this is because of the seven cards dealt to each player and the 52 card make up of a standard deck of cards - and, too, during the course of a game, the dealer will burn four cards. There are less betting rounds than in other forms of poker causing many a house to instigate a rule to call a pre-flop compulsory bet, or ante, to promote both participation in hands and a more complex and challenging game.
Those players who play only holdem games will find themselves at sea in stud poker because of the dissimilarity of strategy required to it play well. No player should think then, that they can approach a 7-card stud table without first observing many games and learning thoroughly its rules, tactics and betting strategies. This careful attention to stud games cannot help but allow a player to gain the insight required for any number of strategies.
7-Card Stud Betting Structure
The deal commences by dealing two cards face down and one face up to each player. Round one begins in a clockwise direction beginning with the holder of the highest hand (at this point, the top hand would be two aces). The following three rounds are dealt with the cards face up while the final card is dealt face down, which takes us to the highest scoring 5-card showdown hand. Betting rounds do occur between each deal, though the Mississippi form may feature just four rounds of betting and two cards are dealt at the same time for the final deal.
The Strategy Behind 7-Card Stud
There is usually a mandatory ante that marks the start of most stud games and it is not unusual for some games to demand that the player with the lowest scoring visible hand "bring in" (place a forced bet). The game continues with each player being dealt three cards, two up and the bring in hand holder must bet first. In case of a tie, the suit is the tiebreaker. At this point in the game, a player has the right to bet, fold or raise to the level of the house limits.
Next up, another card is dealt followed by a betting round beginning with the holder of the best hand (by now it would be three aces). For all remaining rounds, it is the player with the highest scoring visible cards who may choose to either bet or check at the rounds onset. The final arrangement of the cards after all are dealt looks like this: two cards placed face down, two face up, and the last card in the arrangement is placed face down.
Similar to holdem or Omaha poker, he who creates the best hand of five cards gets the pot. Stud differs in its lack of community cards as well as the hands include some face- up cards. The ranking of card combinations is the same as traditional poker. In order of ranking: Royal Flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, pair, with high cards in last place. A good strategy for betting should have at its roots the strength of your hand, the visible cards and betting schemes of your opponents and a keen sense of the size of the pot.
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