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Poker Seven-Card Stud

Seven-Card Stud is the most popular of all the stud games, and has been since it first appeared sometime around the Civil War. There are also sixandfive-card variants, but they are not nearly as popular as the sevencard version. With three down cards and four exposed cards in each player’s hand at the end of the hand, Seven-Card Stud combines some of the surprises of Draw poker, with a good deal of information that can be gleaned from four open cards.

Seven-Card Stud has five rounds of betting that can create some very large pots. Skilled Seven-Card Stud players need an alert mind and good powers of retention. A skillful player has the ability to relate each card in his hand, or visible in the hand of an opponent, to once-visible but now folded hands, in order to estimate the likelihood of making his hand, as well as to estimate the likelihood that an opponent has made his.

In Seven-Card Stud almost every hand is possible. This is very different than a game like Texas Hold’em, in which a full house or fouraf-a-kind isn’t possible unless the board contains paired cards, and a flush is impossible unless the board contains three cards of the same suit.
With nearly endless possibilities, Seven-Card Stud is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. One must combine knowledge of exposed and folded cards with previous betting patterns in order to discern the likelihood of any one of a variety of hands that your opponent might be holding.

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