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
58. Seven Card Stud: America's Most Popular Poker Game
58. Seven Card Stud: America's Most Popular Poker Game In the past two decades, Seven Card Stud, also known as Seven Card Stud High, and Down the River, has become the most popular gambling Poker game in the United States. My survey of Nevada Poker rooms revealed that Seven Card Stud has a 2 to 1 popularity edge over all other forms of Poker combined. As a matter of fact, several Las Vegas Strip casinos such as the M-G-M Grand Hotel Casino permit only Seven Card Stud in their Poker rooms. Untold billions of dollars are won and lost yearly at the tens of thousands of Seven Card Stud games that take place throughout the country.
The first two cards are dealt face down and the next four cards are
The first two cards are dealt face down and the next four cards are dealt face up. A round of betting takes place after the dealing of each face-up card. The best hand showing, as in Five Card Stud, is first to act, and checking is usually allowed in all but the first betting round. The seventh and last card is dealt face down and is followed by the fifth and final betting round. At the showdown, any active player may use any five cards of his dealt seven to make up his best possible Poker hand.