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
After you have received your last card at Stud, odds should no
After you have received your last card at Stud, odds should no longer be considered. By this time you know whether you have a cinch hand or not. If you have a cinch hand, bet the limit; don't check in the hope that your opponent will bet and you can raise him. If he has a raise in mind the chances are that he will raise anyway, should you bet. If not, he probably will check also, and you are out money. Never give an opponent an opportunity to see your hole card free when holding a cinch hand.
Probabilities of Five Card Stud
Probabilities of Five Card Stud The probabilities of holding any specific five-card combination in Five Card Stud are the same as in Five Card Draw minus the draw. The following table lists the odds against a player pairing his hole card at Five Card Stud. Obviously all Stud probabilities are affected mathematically by exactly what face-up (exposed) cards are shown on the table.