The Game 5-Card Stud
by: AndyF
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5-Card Stud poker was at one time the favorite of all the poker games. Up until the Civil War 5 Card Stud was the game that poker players sat down to play. The game moved up the Mississippi River from New Orleans and then west in the saloons of the old west. During the Civil war the game became popular with soldiers on both sides of the conflict and a version of poker has remained popular ever since that time.
5-Card Stud is a relatively straightforward game to learn as each player is dealt 5 cards one at a time. The first card is dealt face down and then another face up. There are variations of how the gambling starts at this point, but the usual way is for the lowest card showing to start the betting. A round of betting follows the face up card. Those players that make the call are then dealt another face up card. A second round of betting follows and those that call are dealt one more face up card. At this point every player has four cards. Every player with a high value pair has a very strong hand. A player with high cards still has a draw. The players who are still left in the game are then dealt the final face up card. The gambling is concluded and the cards are turned face up. The player with the best high poker hand wins the hand and rakes in the pot. If a new player wants to watch how the game was played in the old days rent the movie Cincinnati Kid and watch how they play.
It is difficult to bluff the players in 5 card because it is reasonably straightforward to work out what each player has as his or her best hand. The problem with the game is because there are so few hands that a player may have in their five cards. The lack of variations has caused some of the other poker games to grow progressively more popular amongst poker players. However it is still a well-liked poker game variant which can make a welcome change on a Saturday night.
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