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3 Aggressive Moves to Take Your 7-Card Stud Game Up a Level
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If you played poker back in the 1990s or before, chances are you played 7-Card Stud. Back in the day, Stud was the most popular poker variant in home games and public card rooms alike. The game was spread at least as much as Limit Hold’em (and you rarely saw any No-Limit Hold’em).
Today Stud is much less common. What little you do find is typically in a tournament – usually as part of a mixed game like HORSE or HOSE. And tournament Stud typically spread today differs greatly in structure from the 7-Stud games poker strategy authors have written about for decades.
Never Surrender? 6 Key Spots Where You Don’t Really Have to Fold
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I recently wrote an article about resisting the seductive desire to call in certain situations. This should be considered a companion piece. It’s about resisting the seductive desire to fold.
In poker you may have to know when to hold ’em, but don’t necessarily be so quick to fold ’em. (Image: Getty)
Players starting out in poker generally err on the side of calling too frequently and folding too seldom. They came to play and folding seems anathema to having a good time. So, they call – often to their stack’s destruction.
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I’ll be celebrating my 38th wedding anniversary in August of this year. For 30 of those years, I’ve been a serious poker player, playing thousands of hours of poker in games all over the world. I’ve often been asked how I’ve balanced a rich and rewarding poker life with the rigors of a steady and serious relationship.
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I’ve found certain governing principles have helped me maintain a balance between my poker playing and my home life. It hasn’t always been easy to follow these rules, but I’ve found them to be essential in balancing poker with the rest of my life. I share them with you here.
Winning Poker Strategy: Getting a Good Read on Yourself
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Reading other players is a very useful skill. There are many books on the subject, and they focus on tells, betting patterns, styles of play, and the like. Mike Caro’s
The Body Language of Poker/The Book of Tells is my bible in that regard. Joe Navarro and Zachary Ellwood have also written extensively and well on the subject. Learn what they teach and you will profit from it.
But here’s a question that is not asked or answered in any of their books. Who is the most important player in the game to get a good solid read on?