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Phil Hellmuth and Jason Mercier Give Amateur Players Advice for Stud Poker
06-13-2012,
Phil Hellmuth and Jason Mercier give stud poker tips for beginners.
Stud Poker Tips with 2012 WSOP Bracelet Winner Andy Bloch
06-06-2012,
Andy Bloch gives beginners tips for playing stud.
Strategy with Kristy: Chris George Discusses Mixed Games
03-08-2012,
Chris George comes on the Strategy with Kristy podcast to discuss seven-card stud and razz strategy.
Bankroll Builders, Vol. 2: Heads-Up Razz Sit-N-Go's Part 2
10-28-2009, , 1
When it comes to poker variants, Razz gets a bad rep. Burdened with the stereotypes of being a cranky old man’s game, a fast-track to tilt or an exercise in sheer torture, Razz is actually a fairly simple game to learn. If you can get past the...
Bankroll Builders, Vol. 2: Heads-Up Razz Sit-N-Go's Part 1
10-27-2009, , 1
When it comes to poker variants, Razz gets a bad rep. Burdened with the stereotypes of being a cranky old man’s game, a fast-track to tilt or an exercise in sheer torture, Razz is actually a fairly simple game to learn. If you can get past the...
H.O.R.S.E. Poker Strategy: In the Mix -- Freerolling the High (Stud Hi/Lo)
09-13-2008,
Stud games are typically the games that beginning mixed-games players struggle with the most. They require much more attention to detail than flop games due to all of the cards that are exposed during the course of a hand. For example...
Stud Poker Strategy: 17 Tricks of the Trade
08-02-2008,
There are hundreds of strategy considerations in stud. Most are based on a few broad principles: 'Good starting hands turn into winning hands.' 'Don't chase without sufficient pot odds or implied odds.' 'Be aggressive when you're...
Stud Poker Strategy: Fifth Street Quiz, Part 2 of 2
07-19-2008,
In the last column I asked you what your best betting action would be with a certain hand on fifth street. Let's reprise the hand situation: The game is $20/40 stud with a $3 ante and a $5 forced bet from the low card. It's a casino game...
Stud Poker Strategy: Fifth Street Quiz, Part 1 of 2
07-12-2008,
Let's focus on fifth street for a while. For me, it's the trickiest street to play, since one frequently has difficult decisions about how to play one's hand. Third street might be a more important decision, but in my book it's...
Stud Poker Strategy: Playing on the Road
07-06-2008,
I've been staying and playing poker in Las Vegas. It's a long way from my home in Boston; I've been here for about a week now. It's longer than I normally stay – and it comes with certain risks to my game. Let me outline them...
Stud Poker Strategy: K.I.S.S. -- Keeping it Simple, Stupid
06-28-2008,
I'm leaving for the World Series of Poker today, June 28th. I'll be playing in the H.O.R.S.E. tournament tomorrow, Sunday. I'm excited, but realistic. Even so, it's a heady thing to contemplate – playing among the best...
Stud Poker Strategy: Take a Card Off? — Part 2 of 2
06-21-2008,
In my last column we looked at an extreme case when it made sense to 'take one off.' Here we'll look at the other extreme and then look at some guiding questions to help you figure out what to do in less extreme cases....
Stud Poker Strategy: Take A Card Off? – Part 1 of 2
06-14-2008,
Hold'em players say, 'Let's see the flop.' Stud players say, 'I'll take a card off.' They mean roughly the same thing: They'll pay to see the next round. But the decision is very different. In hold'em, by calling preflop and then seeing...
Stud Poker Strategy: Rotation Tips
06-07-2008,
I've been playing in a lot of home games lately. That's a product of the price of gas. As the price goes up I am less willing to drive the 200 miles or so round trip to play at Foxwoods, my nearest major poker room. I've got to get...
Stud Poker Strategy: Multi-way Hands, Part 3
05-24-2008,
The strategy for multi-way stud games on fifth street and beyond varies significantly from heads-up play. There is a new dimension introduced – the importance of getting the pot heads-up. Let me explain...
Stud Poker Strategy: Multi-handed Pots, Part 2
05-17-2008,
Multi-way games can diverge from heads-up games in two significant ways. First of all, they can be passive -- meaning that you will be unlikely to have to call more than one bet per round -- much as in a heads-up game. Generally...
Stud Poker Strategy: Multi-handed Pots, Part 1
05-10-2008,
I've recently read through my stud-poker literature. There isn't a whole lot out there. What there is focuses almost exclusively on heads-up situations. At the higher levels of stud, that's typically what good players face...
Stud Poker Strategy: Recovery
05-03-2008,
I made the greatest mistake anyone has ever made in a high/low declare stud game. Little children learning this game for the first time don't make this error. Old people, infirmed from Alzheimer's disease, with the few remaining intact...
Stud Poker Strategy: Big Mistakes with Big Hands
04-26-2008,
I see it all the time. The poor schlemiel in the three seat who has been calling along waiting for a big draw finally hits one. What does he do? See below. The hand starts off five-way when a player with a queen showing raises...
Stud Poker Strategy: Tricky Moves, Part 1
04-19-2008,
Most of the time, against the typical stud opponent, you will make most of your money by playing in a straightforward manner. You will make money from the mistakes of your opponents, mistakes that he makes because he is not...
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