Archive for 'Stud Cowboy'

Reasons to Play Seven Card Stud

While discussing with PokerPlasm the great poker variants that get passed over due to the “Chris Moneymaker” effect, he asked me for a reason to play 7 card stud. The answer was simple, the focus required to win money there helps with your Hold’em game. I know that of most you see 7 card stud [...]

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The Best Night of My Poker Life-Part 3

[Editor's Note: This is a 3 part series, part 1 can be read here and/or part 2 can be read here.] Now we are at heads up play. I checked my statistics for the first time in the whole tournament, and they weren’t bad. We had seen over 250 hands in the tourney and I [...]

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The Best Night of My Poker Life-Part 2

[Editor's Note: This is a 3 part series, part 1 can be read here.] The tournament started with 1265 players, which is an average field for the tournament, with cashing starting at 180th place. The first three hours of the tournament were really uneventful. I won a few hands and made the right folds when [...]

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The Best Night of My Poker Life-Part 1

Over the last 5 months I’ve been trying to revamp my poker game. I’ve made a spreadsheet to track everything I do on the poker table; freerolls excluded. I’ve worked hard to tighten my game up to closer to the level of the pros, usually 8-12% flops seen. I’ve been getting close to 20% flops [...]

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Stud Elements

How many of you out there have tried to enter a H.O.R.S.E. tourney, but don’t feel comfortable playing because of the Stud elements of the game? Well, fear no more, here is a beginners guide to Seven Card Stud.

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