Beginner Seven Card Stud Strategy – Starting Hands

In a previous article, I gave you a quick and dirty primer on Seven Card Stud. Nothing fancy, just the nuts and bolts to get you started. This week, I want to continue the lesson with some Fixed Limit Stud beginner strategy. My starter lesson today is the one I try really hard to remember every hand: play tight. Don't play so tight that you limp into one pot every 50 hands since you have to pay an ante, but concentrate on using sound starting hand selection. It is much harder to get away with poor starting hands in Stud than it is in Hold'em or Omaha, so make sure you are selective. Let's look at starting hands you will want to consider. Rolled Up Trips "Rolled up" is a Seven Card Stud term that refers to a three-of-a-kind on the deal, a pair in the hole and a matching third card as your door card. It is a monster starting hand for rather obvious reasons: three-of-a-kind is the best hand you can have with only three cards and the fact that two of the three cards are hidden from your opponents makes it quite deceptive. This is probably the only hand ...

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