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Party Poker - Seven Card Stud
Poker Strategy & Bonuses
Learn the seven card stud starting-hand rules, seven card stud playing strategies, and what to look for at poker tables to increase your winning percentages. Winning poker hands involves much skill and is not about who has the lucky cards. It's about who is able to out-play their opponents with their strategy. Adjust the strategy you are using to your specific table. Constant adjustment and focus in seven card stud game is crucial. Seven card stud strategy is adjusted for:
Cards on the table
The type of seven card stud game
Poker table stakes
Character and behavior of your opponents
Number of poker players at the table
Number of poker players in the betting rounds
Seven Card Stud Basic Strategy for Party Poker, Poker Stars, and other poker rooms :
Pay attention to the first three cards!
In any seven card stud poker game there are
essential things that you must focus on when the starting hand (the first
three cards dealt to each player) is dealt out. Don't lose your focus on these
things at any time, it could cost you the hand. If you weren't paying close
enough attention to these things or were distracted during the deal, fold your hand immediately. Your opponents will pay attention to these things and you don't want them to take advantage of your lapse of concentration. You will probably not
remember the cards specifically on later streets but you will generally
have a hunch if an opponent's hand is real or if it is a bluff.
When the starting hand is dealt and all the door cards are showing you will need
to do this as quickly as possible before players start folding their hands:
- Look at all of the door cards showing on the table.
- Count how many of cards of each suit are out.
- Look at what card numbers are out.
- Remember which player was the first to raise the bring-in bet (if any) and how
far away they are in position from the bring-in.
- Remember if the player with the bring-in bet calls any raises.
- Let the players know that you are not afraid to raise or re-raise.
- Let the players know that you can lay down a very good hand, even after re-raising.
Having general knowledge about the other cards on the table will determine
whether it best you call, raise, or fold. If your cards combination are
live, you will have a higher rate of success in achieving a winning end result.
Again, if cards have been folded around the table, and you have missed the
opportunity to view those door cards, think about folding unless you have an
extremely strong hand and no one has raised the bring-in.
You are not only counting the cards for your own hand, you are counting cards
and suits to determine what is live for other players' hands for later rounds as well.
If your cards are not live - fold.
If you find on fifth street that you are chasing to make a hand against an
aggressive better, it is probably best to fold. Naturally you may not
know this until the show-down and you've lost. Use the experience of knowing when
you are chasing cards for your hand against a player betting aggressively, that
they probably already have a made hand. Then fold earlier next time. In the late
streets they are highly unlikely to fold what they've invested into the
pot when they've been betting aggressively.
Determining if you have a live flush combination:
If you have a 3 flush starting hand, the other door cards you have viewed will
determine the odds of you hitting your flush. You are counting how many of the
cards on your table are of the same suit as your flush draw. In later rounds,
for anyone else who is showing a flush-draw in their up-cards, you will need to
know how live their flush is before betting or calling.
A general rule of thumb to determine the odds of you hitting your flush at a full
table is if there are more than two players (without counting yourself) showing the suit
you need to make your flush, consider your flush dead. If the table is
short-handed you may call for one bet. Especially if you have other outs. If any
cards that turn at fourth street that you need for your flush appear in other
player's hands, really consider your flush a goner. At a short-handed table
you may adjust the fourth street rule to suck-out a back-door flush, however the
door-card suit-count rule should remain the same; consider the flush dead if
there are more than two of the same suit you need in other players' hands.
Determining if you have a live straight combination:
If you have a combination in your starting hand to possibly hit a straight, you
will be looking to see that the cards that you need to complete your straight
are still live. In later rounds, for anyone else who is showing a straight draw,
you will need to know how live their straight is. If you have a connector
combination such as 789 and you see 5's, 6's, 10's, or J's around the table,
consider your straight dead. Also consider that if you see other 7's, 8's and
9's at the table, the cards that you need to make pairs for this hand should be
considered dead to your draw.
2 Pair Play:
If you have a combination in your hand where you can make 2 pair, you want to
see who's cards may be higher than yours. You will also be looking to see if the
cards you need for pairs will still be live or if they are out of play.
The first player to raise the bring-in bet probably has a fairly strong combination. Most
likely a pocket pair or split pair. The position that they raise from may
determine if they are attempting to steal the pot or if they really have a hand
to play.
Other notes to remember for low and medium stakes tables:
At low stakes tables, players don't like to fold, especially in card rooms.
They'll bet and call just about anything, and being in a hand usually means
you're going to end up in a heavy multi-way hand where there is a lot of action
and money the winning pot is a very good amount. When nobody likes to fold and
you are playing strong combinations, be aggressive. Don't fall into the trap
where you're playing crappy combinations because other players at your table
don't know how to fold and start with crappy hands themselves. Use it to your
advantage and play strong opening combinations with aggressive betting strategy
and take the pot.
There are also tables where they will play crappy combos to the river calling
all of your raises just for kicks, or maybe they caught something great
on their crappy hand. This can be extremely frustrating and costly. Playing tight and aggressively at a table like this will eventually get them to
wake up and play better hands when the chips keep moving to your side of the
table after you're winning show-downs and you've been playing strong consistently.
In online poker, players at the table usually play
pretty straight-up, with little bluffing and will fold in earlier rounds when
they know the cards in their hand are beaten. The exception to this
usually occurs during tournament play.
The longer you sit at a table with the same players, the more you get a feel for
their strategy, what they raise and call with, and how easy or difficult it is
for them to fold. Take notes about each player and adjust your strategy
according to which players are in the hand with you. Bet aggressively to
fold-out the weakest players. Have a made hand to call bets against another
strong or aggressive player. Check and call or check and fold to players
who are known for consistently having real hands and compare yours to theirs.
Move on to the next level of play in Seven Card Stud - the Advanced Strategy page teaches you how to cope with what you are up against
with experienced and very loose players.
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