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
Anytime you can read an opponent's hand with a high degree of
Anytime you can read an opponent's hand with a high degree of accuracy you take many pots or half pots even if you don't fill in your hand. To achieve this goal you simply declare the opposite way you believe your opponent will.
Contrary to what most Seven Card Stud Poker players believe,
Contrary to what most Seven Card Stud Poker players believe, simultaneous declaration is a less mathematical game than most other forms of Poker. It is also more psychological. Expert players at Seven Card High-Low Stud Declare steal many more pots by deceptive declarations than an expert bluffer wins at Seven Card Stud High.