Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
In the past twenty years, professional Five Card Stud has lost
In the past twenty years, professional Five Card Stud has lost considerable popularity to Seven Card Stud, Seven Card High-Low Stud, Hold Em and various other Stud variations. In the legalized Poker rooms of the state of Nevada I've seen only one Five Card Stud game, as compared to hundreds of Seven Card Stud and Hold Em games. However, Five Card Stud is still a popular social game throughout America.
Five Card Stud, which has four betting intervals, allows for more
Five Card Stud, which has four betting intervals, allows for more strategy than Five Card Draw Poker, which has only two. In Five Card Stud, the average rank of the winning hands is considerably lower than in Five Card Draw, since in Five Card Stud the maximum number of cards each player is dealt is five (one face down and four face up).