Stud Poker

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

  Ashley Adams

  There are a number of strategy concerns you should be aware of when you're sitting in a new home poker game. Some of these are obvious, some less so. Let me address them all.

   

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

  Ashley Adams

  You've arrived at the home poker game you've never been to before. Don't arrive empty handed. And don't arrive late. If you can go with the person who invited you, all the better....

   

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

  Ashley Adams

  Sometimes it's easy. It's your regular poker game. It's at your house or your buddy's house. You know all the players and how they play and where the bathroom is...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Playing in Big Games

  Ashley Adams

  The conventional poker wisdom is to never play in a game where you can't afford the stakes. There are conventional guidelines for figuring this out....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Lessons for my Father, Part Three

  Ashley Adams

  I talk to my father about poker. He plays in a couple of low stakes games each week - which gives us a lot to talk about....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Peeking

  Ashley Adams

  In bridge there's an expression 'a peak is worth two finesses'. You don't have to play bridge to understand the message. Simply put, it means that a peak at someone else's cards is worth a ton.

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Lessons For My Father, Part Two

  Ashley Adams

  As I mentioned in part 1 of this series, I speak to my father Herb regularly about his poker play. He plays in two small stakes games each week with other retirees where he lives....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Lessons For My Father, Part One

  Ashley Adams

  My father Herb is retired and plays in two poker games each week with other retirees in his retirement 'village'....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Don't Make the 'Auto Call'

  Ashley Adams

  In Stud, there are many calls that even experienced players make automatically. This is, in my opinion, a hole in their game that needs to be plugged....

   

• Stud Strategy - Playing in Multiple Games Online

  Ashley Adams

  I'm often asked how playing poker on the Internet differs from playing in live games. There are many ways. You can't see your opponents on the Internet...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Aces in the Hole

  Ashley Adams

  You've heard the expression 'Ace in the Hole'? It's a classic and it means that you have something that may not be readily apparent that gives you power in a particular situation.

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Buying the Free Card

  Ashley Adams

  You may have heard about poker players buying a free card. I know that I didn't understand what this meant for quite a while. But it is not an advanced move...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy: Fifth Street Defense

  Ashley Adams

  Most poker players want to learn how to be aggressive. It's important in this game. Passive play is usually losing play....

   

• Stud Strategy - Arguments at the Poker Table

  Ashley Adams

  You've been party to them in poker games. I know I have. These are the battles over rule interpretations that sometimes explode at the table.....

   

• Stud Strategy - Drafting and Poker

  Ashley Adams

  There's a concept applicable to stud poker that comes from bicycle racing. It's useful against moderately good opponents who know the importance of aggression. I call it 'poker drafting'.

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Beware Two Pair

  Ashley Adams

  I remember my friend Brian from elementary and middle school. He was a scrawny kid in elementary school. We picked him last for all of our pick up games of baseball or touch football or kickball...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Trips

  Ashley Adams

  I know poker players who dismiss my attempts to teach people how to play trips. They point out that it's hard to lose money with three-of-a-kind....

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Poker Heaven

  Ashley Adams

  It was just a flight of whimsy really. I wasn't in the mood for a serious poker discussion. So I posted a silly little question on the online poker Usenet discussion group known as RGP...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Chasing, Part Two

  Ashley Adams

  As the stakes go up in stud, the antes and the forced bets tend to grow as a percentage of the small bet. For example, though the conventionally structured $10/20 game...

   

• Stud Poker Strategy - Chasing, Part One

  Ashley Adams

  When I was first starting to learn about how to play poker, I learned the importance of playing what was referred to as tight/aggressive poker....

   

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