Stud Game

[yoda98]

Hello,

In simple terms, what is a stud game?

[skinski]

Pretty much hold'em without the community cards. You are dealt all the cards to you the player to make your hand, not the board to share with everyone.

[yoda98]

Thank you.

[SvetaMS]

It is very a pity to me, I can help nothing, but it is assured, that to you will help to find the correct decision.

[ignatiusmael]

Hi,
It will be very rare that all 8 players stay in a hand. However, if you are playing low stakes and have very loose players that rarely fold, there are several options you can take:

You could limit the game to 7 players to avoid the issue.

If the deck does become exhausted during play, previously-dealt burn cards can be used when only a few cards are needed to complete the deal.

If even those are not sufficient, then on the final round instead of dealing a downcard to each player, a single community card is dealt to the center of the table, and is shared by everyone (that is, each player treats it as his seventh card).

Under no circumstances can any discarded card from a folded hand be "recycled" for later use. Unlike draw poker, where no cards are ever seen before showdown, stud poker players use the information they get from face-up cards to make strategic decisions, and so a player who sees a certain card folded is entitled to make decisions knowing that the card will never appear in another opponent's hand.

[Oswaldolin]

Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round.