Stud Poker

• Stud Poker Strategy: Full Value

  Ashley Adams

  I was driving home from Foxwoods Resort Casino (see my poker room review on this great poker room) with my friend Jim. He and I were celebrating our 30th year of friendship with a trip to our favorite poker room. It had been a late night...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: A Stud Desert in Las Vegas

  Ashley Adams

  I just came back from a trip to Las Vegas – where I played in the World Series of Poker. This six-week poker competition is known best for its Main Event, the $10,000 no-limit hold'em contest. That's the one that where the winner earns...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Roll the Dice

  Ashley Adams

  The expression 'rolling the dice' usually comes with negative connotations for the poker purist. Meaning 'to gamble,' it implies that someone is leaving the outcome of an event to chance, as in, 'I didn't study at all for this test...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Stranger in a Strange Game

  Ashley Adams

  I was traveling through Virginia a few weeks back – there for a business trip. I found myself on a lake about thirty miles south of Lynchburg. Lynchburg is the home of Liberty University – the fundamentalist Christian school...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Quads Redux

  Ashley Adams

  It was a hand for the ages. Literally one week after my last column on how to play quads on the first four cards in stud, I was dealt quads on the first four cards. This is how it happened...

   

• Stud Strategy - Poker Islands

  Ashley Adams

  There are no public poker room on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And it's painfully tough on vacationing poker players – because none of the locals will let you into their private games. I know. I used to spend two weeks each summer....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Quads on Fourth Street

  Ashley Adams

  Quads happen. Sure, it's rare; very rare, in fact. But it does happen. On average, you'll be dealt quads in the first four cards of 7-card stud about once in every 18,500 hands. If you play 30 hands an hour, that's about once every 600...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Big Pot Stud

  Ashley Adams

  I spend most of my stud-playing hours at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. From time to time, however, I like to travel for my poker action. Unfortunately, there are few places in the world where decent 7-card stud is spread...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy – The 'Hit and Run'

  Ashley Adams

  There is a school of poker strategy that encourages the hit and run approach. Others eschew it as much on the felt as they do on the road. Should you, the thoughtful poker player, embrace or avoid such a strategy...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Adjustments for Very Good Games, Part II

  Ashley Adams

  I've been writing about how to take advantage of a very good game – a game with lots of loose action – though not a ramming-jamming game with lots of raising. This game calls for a different approach. I started out last time...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Adjustments for a Very Good Game, Part 1

  Ashley Adams

  You will sometimes find yourself in a berry patch, a fish farm, or a honey pot – all synonyms for a very good poker game. What makes it good? By my standards, a bunch of loose and passive players. I'm not talking about the highly aggressive...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Exceptions to Rules of Thumb

  Ashley Adams

  In my last column I explained some good rules of thumb to help guide your play, in general, at the stud table. I explained that these rules can help the thoughtful player, keep him from becoming paralyzed with indecision...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Good Rules of Thumb

  Ashley Adams

  Poker is a game with many variables. You need to consider the cards you hold, the cards your opponent holds, and the cards you think he thinks you're holding. You must consider his history of play and his consideration....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - X-Ray Vision, Part II

  Ashley Adams

  In my first installment of this two-part series I wrote about the ability to see through the backs of your opponents' cards – as if you had those X-Ray glasses advertised in the back of comic books. I explained that your opponents' cards

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - X-Ray Vision - Part I

  Ashley Adams

  I remember as a kid seeing ads in the back of comic books for x-ray glasses. You remember the ad, don't you? It was a picture of this guy wearing lightly shaded glasses and staring at a woman who clearly appeared to him to be naked...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Are you Doggin' It?, Part II

  Ashley Adams

  In my last column, we looked at the likelihood that someone would win when he started out with a hand on third street that was an underdog. We looked just at the match up statistically – not accounting for whether the raiser...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Are You Doggin' It? - Part 1

  Ashley Adams

  I drove down to Foxwoods' poker room early one Sunday morning this winter to play some stud. It really is the best place in the world to go for stud action. Thank goodness I live within two hours of the place...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy -Your Image, Part III

  Ashley Adams

  In the first two parts of this series I mentioned the importance of recognizing the image that other players have of you at the poker table. This may differ from how you like to think of yourself; and it may vary from opponent to opponent...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Your Image - Part II

  Ashley Adams

  In the first part of this series on image, I noted how important it is to recognize your image in the mind of your opponent. And I noted some difficulties in doing so – starting with self-delusion. I'd like to introduce a few other reasons....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy, Your Image, Part One

  Ashley Adams

  I like to tell this story about an egotist to make a point about poker....A guy goes to a party. He is really full of himself. He starts talking to a woman. He goes on and on about himself – about how rich he is....

   

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