Review of all poker games::Is poker a game, a sport or both
Review of all poker games::Is poker a game, a sport or both
Not many people are familiar with seven-card stud now. I played it in my service days, when guys sat down to what was called dealer's choice poker. That meant the type of game, which usually involved six players, was chosen by the player who got to deal as it rotated around the table after each hand. In those days, most dealers chose the traditional five-card draw poker or five-card stud. Any other choice usually was met with groans and gripes. I believe one variety of the stud game, spit in the ocean, is the ancestor of the most popular game of today, Texas hold'em. It was a boring pain then, just as its descendant is today. I was and still am a poker traditionalist, and prefer five-card draw. I never liked any of the seven-card stud games. They tend to drag out each hand forever, and if a player drops out of a hand early, he has to sit and wait too long before getting back into play. I guess you can find versions of seven-card stud in Vegas and Atlantic City card rooms, but you'll also find most of the players to be rank amateurs. Actually, that could be an advantage if and when you feel you are a superior seven-card player and want to take some yokels to the cleaners. I'm sure you'd still find seven-card games today aboard Navy ships, Marine barracks or Army camps, where some of sharp 60-year-old recalled Reservists are craftily taking money away from young GIs just out of boot camp. Mostly, seven-card is a lost art form, having seen its glory days fade after the World War II era. Basically, a seven-card stud hand begins with each poker player being dealt two face-down cards. The next four for each player are dealt, one at a time, face up. As each up card is dealt, the player with the highest hand showing has the option to bet or pass. After rounds of betting, the seventh card is dealt face down. That leaves each player ... except those who may have quit the hand along the way ... with three down cards and four up. The basic values of seven-card games, as in most all poker varieties, apply as each surviving player computes his best five cards from among the seven, and bets accordingly. A good player uses both the value of his cards as his turn to bet arrives, as well as his ability to bluff. The best opportunity is the final betting round after the seventh card is dealt. Since I don't like any form of seven-card stud, I'll quickly go over some of the variations, which are even more annoying than the basic one, especially the wild card games. The simplest is deuces wild, meaning that you can use any deuces dealt to you to improve your hand. For example, if among your seven cards, you have two deuces and two aces, you have a virtually unbeatable hand of five aces. Another wild card game involves the dealer declaring the lowest down-card dealt in each hand is wild. A confusing abomination. A worse variation is for the dealer to call different wild cards. I remember a very poetic, but totally confusing seven-card variety called: whores, fours and one-eyed-jacks. This meant that all queens, fours and the two jacks with face in profile were wild. With ten wild cards out of 52, fuggetabottit. Another variety is high-low, where the best hand and the worst hand share winning of the pot (all the money bet). It is another confusing mess, because a player can try for both the best and worst hand at the same time. These different games were tough years ago on my young brain, and impossible today for my old brain. Another seven-card game called baseball is, if possible, even more confusing. In it, threes and nines are wild, and if you're dealt a four card, you get an extra card. Even Pete Rose wouldn't want to bet on that baseball game. Of course, there are many other varieties of seven-card stud, probably even worse than the ones I've described. You can do your own research about them. Meanwhile, deal me out. |
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