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[NickTheKid]

Does anyone have a link, or some strategy for a basic starting hand guide for 7 card stud?

[Absolute]

stop while you are behind.

[JaysonWeber]

Absolute said:

stop while you are behind.

What he said... I am working on my stud game, It's very very good money if you can play it right but its a very very long road to get there.. I probobly throw away 20-50 bucks a week playing Stud :(It's an investment... thats what I gotta tell myself. SS2 has a good chapter on it.

[custom36]

JaysonWeber said:

SS2 has a good chapter on it.

SS1 also has a good chapter, I believe. (SS2 is hi/lo, isn't it?)

[UglyJimStudly]

NickTheKid said:

Does anyone have a link, or some strategy for a basic starting hand guide for 7 card stud?

It depends a fair amount on the limit you play; at microlimits on PokerStars, for example, so many people play so badly that any kind of hand selection will put you ahead of the game. Once real money gets involved, keeping track of live cards becomes more and more important. Sklansky and Malmuth have a stud book, but it's geared towards higher limits. If you do a little googling for something like "stud hand selection" or "stud starting hands", you'll find a fair amount of advice. It'll mostly boil down to the same general types of starting hands - trips, big pairs, pairs with big kickers, three to a big straight, three to a big flush - with some individual variations based on number of players and live cards. Any kind of hand selection will make you incredibly tight by low-limit stud standards, and probably guarantee a steady stream of money.

[NickTheKid]

UglyJimStudly said:

NickTheKid said:

Does anyone have a link, or some strategy for a basic starting hand guide for 7 card stud?

It depends a fair amount on the limit you play; at microlimits on PokerStars, for example, so many people play so badly that any kind of hand selection will put you ahead of the game. Once real money gets involved, keeping track of live cards becomes more and more important. Sklansky and Malmuth have a stud book, but it's geared towards higher limits. If you do a little googling for something like "stud hand selection" or "stud starting hands", you'll find a fair amount of advice. It'll mostly boil down to the same general types of starting hands - trips, big pairs, pairs with big kickers, three to a big straight, three to a big flush - with some individual variations based on number of players and live cards. Any kind of hand selection will make you incredibly tight by low-limit stud standards, and probably guarantee a steady stream of money.

Thank you, too the one guy who answered my question

[wrto4556]

Get 7cardstud for advanced players...2+2 book.btw, there is no such thing as a starting hand guide in 7cs. It's a wierd game.

[Absolute]

i meant to say the starting hands thing too.the hands you play in stud are very dependant on how many of your outs are "live".dont start playing until you know these thins.and ive heard that book is good.