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
72. New York Five Card Stud
72. New York Five Card Stud This variation of regular Five Card Stud is very popular with big time gamblers in the state of New York, where it has become known as New York Poker. In this variant a four flush (a four-card flush) beats a single pair but loses to two pairs or higher. In the final betting round a player with a four flush showing bets first, as compared to a player with a high card or any single pair showing.
While regular Five Card Stud is the tightest of all Poker games, the
While regular Five Card Stud is the tightest of all Poker games, the introduction of the four-card flush transforms it into a fine and looser game. And it appears that the only time a player folds early is when he holds two low cards of different suits.