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  • Stud Poker Strategy - Razz Part II

    Ashley Adams

    In Part I of this series, I explained that the most thorough strategy on this game presented in David Sklansky's book Sklansky on Poker. I also explained that most of the razz games that I've found lately....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy – Razz, Part One

    Ashley Adams

    I suppose it started when one poker player or another was tired of only getting bad hands. Someone came up with the novel idea of letting the worst hand win for a change. Thus was razz born....

     
  • Stud Poker: FARGO isn't only in North Dakota

    Ashley Adams

    I've written a lot about game selection – about the importance of a finding a game where you are better than the average player. I've shown in these articles how your ability to win is directly connected to finding games with poor players...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Stud in Las Vegas

    Ashley Adams

    The title is sexy and seductive I suppose. It's every guy's fantasy -- to be a stud in Las Vegas. All those showgirls. But my tale is not that tail. It's a more somber report.

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Looks Good But Isn't

    Ashley Adams

    I spend a lot of time in these articles giving you the general theory with a couple of examples to illustrate the point. This time I'm going to do something very different. I'm going to just list a long series of hands...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Where Will the Money Come From?

    Ashley Adams

    When I was younger and on a very limited budget I used to have to think about how I would pay for things I wanted. When I wanted to buy something the question 'Where will the money come from?' had to be answered first....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Lucky in Louisville

    Ashley Adams

    I have always had a fondness in the special poker section of my heart for the Greater Louisville area. I have family in the area -- just over the river in the small town of DuPauw, Indiana....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Stud/8 Sit n Goes, Part Three

    Ashley Adams

    Your strategy must change after the first few players are knocked out but before you are clearly in the money. By this point I've found that there are a couple of players on life support....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy: Stud/8 Sit N Goes, Part Two

    Ashley Adams

    In Stud/8 poker, with your high hands without lows you should be extremely cautious, only entering the hand when you are certain or nearly certain that you have the highest, and then entering for a raise...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Stud 8 Sit n Go Strategy, Part One

    Ashley Adams

    I like to play Stud/8 (7-card Stud Hi-Lo, with an 8 low as a qualifier) online sit and go tournaments. These are one or two table tourneys that begin as soon as the table (or tables) are full...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - WSOP Lessons, Part Two

    Ashley Adams

    In my last article I noted that in spite of the long odds against winning a WSOP event, I decided to enter one anyway -- a $1,000 Stud8 event. This article will explain how I prepared....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - WSOP Lessons, Part One

    Ashley Adams

    I'm a grinder -- if I'm an anything. I play medium and small stakes stud and hold 'em and grind out a profit. I have a day job as a union negotiator...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Cheating at Stud in Home Games

    Ashley Adams

    Don't cheat. I don't. You shouldn't. It's unethical; it's against the rules; and you won't sleep well at night if you do....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Not the World Series of Poker

    Ashley Adams

    It wasn't the World Series of Poker. No, not at all. No cameras; no celebrities; no crushing together of tables or squeezing by of people as someone was knocked out....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Moving Up? Part Two

    Ashley Adams

    In my last column I noted three considerations when deciding whether to move to a higher game: bankroll, ability to win, and psychology. I dealt with the first, bankroll....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Moving Up? Part One

    Ashley Adams

    I visited the Cherokee Casino just outside Tulsa, Oklahoma the other day. I had flown in to compete in a few of the preliminary tournaments during the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge II...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy: The Semi (Demi) Bluff

    Ashley Adams

    I have a concept to introduce that may make you laugh. I don't mean it to be funny. It's won me money. But maybe it will strike you as absurd. You be the judge.....

     
  • Stud Strategy - Poker At the Taj

    Ashley Adams

    My marathon trip to Atlantic City included a stop at the Trump Taj Mahal (known familiarly as 'The Taj') – once the premier poker room in the area. In many respects it still is....

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy - Atlantic City Poker Scene, Part II

    Ashley Adams

    In my last column I gave you an overview of the poker scene in Atlantic City these days, including a summary of the where there is 7 card stud, and what the stakes are...

     
  • Stud Poker Strategy: Atlantic City Stud, Part One

    Ashley Adams

    There was a time, not that long ago, when the Atlantic City poker scene included many wonderful stud games. The Taj Majal had all limits all the time....

     
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