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
FACTS ABOUT STUD POKER VARIATIONS
FACTS ABOUT STUD POKER VARIATIONS In the following selection of the miscellaneous Stud Poker variations, there are many which appear in print for the first time. The variants are of Five Card Stud, unless otherwise specified. These games have been collected from years of watching various kinds of Stud Poker being played in cardrooms, Poker clubs and casinos here and abroad. I have divided the Stud, or Open, Poker variants into two general categories: Basic Variations of Stud Poker and Miscellaneous Stud Poker Variants. The player will find the rules governing these games under General Rules for Poker, under Five, Six and Seven Card Stud Poker Rules, and in the text that follows.
67. Five Card Stud—Deuces Wild
67. Five Card Stud—Deuces Wild Played exactly as is Five Card Stud, except that the deuces are wild, and on the showdown cards do not speak for themselves; a player must announce the value of his hand in his proper turn of play. Announcement cannot be changed after a player's turn of play has passed on the showdown. Often the joker is added as an extra wild card.