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
68. Five Card Stud with the Bug
68. Five Card Stud with the Bug Played exactly as Five Card Stud except that the joker is added, making a 53-card deck, and the joker is used only as the "bug" (only as an ace or a wild card to fill a straight or flush).
In this game, beware of aces, which assume great importance when
In this game, beware of aces, which assume great importance when the bug is in play. There are now five aces that can be made and many more straights and flushes. For complete strategy in making use of the bug, see California Draw Poker with the Bug (pages 106-108).