Stud Poker

• 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....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Calling Stations

  Ashley Adams

  You've played poker against players who frequently call and seldom raise or fold. They're known familiarly as 'calling stations'. It can be frustrating to play against them....

   

• Stud Strategy - Poker Paradoxes

  Ashley Adams

  Much of what's written about poker is just plain common sense. Writers fill their pages with standard bromides like "self control is one of the most important parts of a winning game...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Focus

  Ashley Adams

  I played some $20/40 stud at Foxwoods the other night. It was a great game. A couple of loose players and a bunch of solid guys like me. We all ganged up on the fish.

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Big Spread Limit Games, Part Two

  Ashley Adams

  I wrote about spread limit stud a few columns back – not the typical low limit game of $1-5 or $1-3 that's spread in some poker rooms (and widely spread at my home poker room of Foxwoods)...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Big Spread Limit Games

  Ashley Adams

  Generally speaking, there are two common varieties of 7-Card Stud games: spread limit games and the fixed limit games. Spread limit games, for the most part, tend to be very low stakes...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Playing in a New Game, Part Four

  Ashley Adams

  Experienced poker players know the importance of 'tells' - those actions that tend to give away the true strength of their opponents' hands. In a casino, the best kind of tell is usually the broadest one...

   

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