Advanced seven-card stud player

Title- Seven-card stud: Third street
Author- Milan
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The most important decision that you will make playing seven card stud is on third street. Not only must you address the obvious question of whether to play your hand, but you also must determine how to play your hand, such as large pairs, do better against a small number of opponents; other hands, such as a small three-flush, do best against a large number of opponents. A number of hands, such as a three-flush with two high cards, play well no matter how many opponents you may have.

Let us discuss the questions that perturbs most seven card stud players

• How to play starting hand?
• Why many hands typically played by others are not profitable?

In seven card stud third street you can even play the cards, which most poker players usually think to be useless, for good profit. Such a game can be played if you have understood the game, your judgment is good and you are truly dedicated to this game. If you are sincerely playing third street seven-card stud for several days, you will notice that playing first three cards is little bit complex. In order to have a good start, it is important to be aware of up-cards of opponent poker player, how good the opponent player is playing poker, and hows the game going on, tight or loose?

Advanced 7 card stud players can answer these questions. If you are novice in playing 7 card stud, i would advice you to play conservatively rather than what we mentioned above.

Why- Seven card stud

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Why play Seven-cards stud?

There is one overriding reason to play seven cards stud rather than other games. It is simply that stud games tend to be very good. Why id this so? It probably has something to do with the fact that most tourists are familiar with it, and are thus more likely to sit down at a stud table. Another reason is that the large short term luck factor in this form of poker attracts the bad players, as they are able to make some pretty decent scores every now and then, even though they will go broke in the long run. Whatever the reason, seven card stud games are consistently better than any other form of poker, particularly in the bigger games. The real expert almost always can find a stud game where his winning expectation is quite high.

But the large short-term luck factor, caused mainly by the fact it is easier to draw out on the best hand than it is in a game like holdem, needs to be addressed. Most seven card stud professionals talk about the 'roller coaster ride' that they often seem to be on. Specifically, the large standard deviation inherent in this game requires a fairly large bankroll to ensure survival.

Also, keep in mind that there are two main reasons one win money at stud. The first is that some of the opponents play badly and, in extreme cases, literally give their money away. The second is that this form of poker provides numerous opportunities for the expert player to make expert plays and extract additional money from his weaker-playing opponents. It is not referring to merely bluffs. Rather, these expert plays allow to gain an extra bet here and there, or perhaps to save a bet. In addition, optimal strategy may 'save' the pot by occasionally knocking out the best hand, or the potentially best hand. The expert player does a much better job of evaluating the value of his hand than does the typical player. We shall see that many factors, besides the cards that you hold, determine how strong your hand really is.

How to play- 2

In seven-card stud, each player generally posts an ante prior to the cards being dealt (although some low-limit games require no ante). To begin the hand, all players are dealt two down cards and one up card. The player with the lowest up card is required to start the action on the first betting round with a small bet, which is called the bring-in. If more than one player has the same rank of low card, then suit in alphabetical order-clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades-determines who must start the action.

The first player to the left of the bring-in has three options: He may throw away his hand, call the bring-in, or raise to a full bet. If he folds or calls the bring-in, the person to his left has the same options; however, if the first player raises to a full bet, the next person now has the options of folding, calling the full bet, or raising again. The action proceeds clockwise in this manner until all players have exercised their options and all bets have been called.

All players remaining in the hand then receive three more up cards and a final card face down, with a betting round after each card is dealt. In these subsequent four betting rounds, the player with the high hand on board acts first. If two hands are of equal high value, the player to the left of the dealer initiates the betting action. At the showdown, the player who makes the best five-card poker hand from the seven cards he possesses wins the pot.


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Seven card stud- How to play

Structured-limit or fixed-limit seven-card stud games have a double limit, with the lower limit used in the early betting rounds and the higher limit (which is usually double the lower limit) used in the later rounds. Thus the lower bet is allowed on the first and second betting rounds-referred to as third street and fourth street-which correspond to the first three cards and the fourth card, and a double-sized bet is required on the third, fourth, and fifth betting rounds. These later rounds correspond to the fifth, sixth, and seventh cards, and are called, respectively, fifth street, sixth street, and seventh street, or the river. There is one exception: If a player has an open pair on fourth street, either a single or a double-sized bet may be made.

Here’s an example. Suppose you are playing $3-$6 seven-card stud. Everyone will ante 50 cents, the player with the low card will bring it in for $1, and the first player to his left will have the options of folding, calling the $1 bring-in, or raising to $3.Once the bet has been raised to $3, all subsequent bets and raises on both third and fourth streets will be in $3 increments, unless a player makes an open pair on fourth street. In this case, any active player has the options of betting or raising either $3 or$6. All bets and raised on the last three betting rounds will be in $6 increments. Typically, cardrooms allow three or four raises . But heads up (two players), the number of rises is unlimited.

Many low-stakes seven-card stud games also are played with spread limits, where each player has the option to vet or raise an amount that is not fixed. As an example, in a typical $1-$4 spread-limit stud game, there is no ante, the low card brings it in for $1, and all bets and raises can be any amount from $1 to $4 at the bettor’s discretion

Finally, in some low-limit stud games, a jackpot is awarded when a very strong hand gets beat by an even better hand. To seed the jackpot pool, the house usually sets aside a small amount of money from each pot, although sometimes an additional ante is required to support the jackpot. When a good hand, such as aces full of queens, gets beat, the player holding the losing hand wins either the entire jackpot or a large percentage of it. In most cardrooms, the player holding the winning hand also receives a portion of the jackpot, and sometimes all players dealt in the hand are awarded a token amount of the prize money.
Jackpot poker is currently very popular in many locations where poker is legal. Depending on the game, typical jackpots range from $2,000 to $10,000, but some have exceeded $50,000.

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