How To Play Five Card Stud Poker
Five Card Stud is similar to Five Card Draw, the difference
being that you do not ever get a chance to replace cards in your
hand and therefore do not get a chance to improve that hand. As
in Seven Card Stud you get a hole card and 4 open cards for all
to see. Most versions play the final card as a community card.
Since there is no chance to improve your hand, the winning hands
tend to be either pairs or high cards and it is hard to string
people along to the final street. Some variations on Five Card
Stud alleviate this by making the last card a pocket card
allowing for some raises.
The Open
The hand starts with the dealer handing each player 2 cards.
First cards dealt are a hole card and then the dealer follows up
with an open card for each player. Wagering then begins, usually
with the high open card going first and then following
clockwise. This continues until betting is over. These are the
first two "Streets".
Third Street
The dealer then hands out a third card, which is another open
card. This is followed by another round of betting. Betting
begins again with the highest open card opening and continues
until there are no more bets made. Then it is time for the
Fourth Street.
Fourth Street
Again the dealer hands out an open card, which is then followed
by another round of betting. Betting again continues until all
call and then it is on to the Fifth Street.
Fifth Street
The Fifth Street is the final card. Usually this is an open card
but some variations play this as a hole or pocket card to make
the game more interesting. This variation creates more
uncertainty about which cards your opponent's hole cards could
be and allows for more interesting betting opportunities. Bluffs
and more creative betting make this variation more interesting
than four straight open cards.
Another variation is to have both the first and second cards
remain hole cards, for much the same reasons as making the fifth
card a hole card. The problem with having only the first card as
a hole card is that even beginning players get a feel for the
odds of any particular player having a better hand than theirs,
based on their open cards. Therefore it is difficult to have an
interesting hand of cards as betting tends to be rather a bit
more conservative as a result.
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