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
Dealing the last card down makes for a good game. All the strategy
Dealing the last card down makes for a good game. All the strategy and mathematics described under Five Card Stud apply to this ariation. Furthermore, due to the second hole card, much more bluffing takes place. In this variant it is best to be more conservative than in Five Card Stud.
71. Five Card Stud—Five Bets
71. Five Card Stud—Five Bets This game, which is also known as Pistol Pete, Hole Card Stud, and John's Poker, is played as is Five Card Stud Poker, except that there is an extra betting round that occurs after the hole cards have been dealt to each player and before any upcards are dealt.