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
77. Three Card Substitution
77. Three Card Substitution Also known as Three Card Buy, this game is a high-low variation of Five Card Stud, but after each player's fifth card has been dealt and its betting round is completed, the dealer calls "Buy one," or "Substitution one." Then, each player in turn is permitted to discard and draw a card. Players may discard an upcard or a hole card. If an upcard is discarded, the player receives an upcard. If a hole card is discarded, the player receives a face-down card. After the first substitution, or "buy-in," there is a round of betting. Dealer then calls "Substitution two," and there is another substitution followed by another round of betting. Then the dealer calls "Substitution three," followed by a discard and draw and a final betting round. A player may reject the opportunity to substitute any time he wishes. The substitutions, or buy-ins, are not free; they must be paid for. In a one-, two-, and three-unit-limit game, the first buy-in costs three units, the second costs six units, and third costs nine units.
78. Two Card Buy or Substitution
78. Two Card Buy or Substitution Played the same as Three Card Substitution except that only two substitutions, or buy-ins, are permitted.