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
The rules for Five Card Stud apply, with the following exceptions
The rules for Five Card Stud apply, with the following exceptions and additional rules. Each player's first two dealt cards are dealt face down and the third card face up. Then the first betting interval takes place. When the first betting interval has been completed, a fourth card, face up, is dealt to each active player, followed by a second betting interval. Then a fifth card, face up, is dealt to each active player followed by a third betting interval.
Now each active player has the option to discard a face-up card or a
Now each active player has the option to discard a face-up card or a face-down card or stand pat (refuse to draw). If a player discards a face-up card, he is dealt a face-up card. If he discards a face-down card, he is dealt a face-down card.