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  Stud Poker Strategy: Heads Up on Heads-Up Battles

  Saturday, February 9, 2008, Ashley Adams

  I was playing in a relaxed $5/10 home game of dealer's choice HORSE (where the dealer may call a round of hold'em, Omaha-8, razz, stud, or stud-8) with three regulars and two players who had rarely if ever played seven-card stud. They were ...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Bad Advice

  Saturday, January 19, 2008, Ashley Adams

  My daughter is going off to France today, studying abroad for the second semester of her junior year of college. I have a long list of things I want to tell her - advice for living and studying abroad. But before I have that conversation I ...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Flush in Five

  Saturday, January 5, 2008, Ashley Adams

  Here's a close call in stud at the poker table that you've probably faced many times. It's the kind of difficult decision you should be lucky enough to frequently make. You are dealt three cards of the same suit, the exposed one an ace...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Theorem of Poker – A Closer Look for Stud Players

  Saturday, December 29, 2007, Ashley Adams

  The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky should be on everyone's must-read list of poker books. It is a classic, for good reason. Within the book's pages Sklansky addresses, powerfully and broadly, winning concepts of play including how to rea...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Reading Hands by Reading Cards

  Saturday, December 15, 2007, Ashley Adams

  To be a successful stud player you must be able to use the information that is presented to you to figure out the likely hand of your opponent. Forget tells, important though they may be. Forget psychic ability, fantastic though that would ...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Calling

  Sunday, December 9, 2007, Ashley Adams

  It's gotten a bad name, calling has. Players who do a lot of it are given a special moniker, 'calling station'. Good players tend to go for the raise and the fold. Even so, there are times when it is surely the best play. Here are a fe...more
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  Stud Poker Strategy: Don't Believe Everything You Read

  Saturday, November 24, 2007, Ashley Adams

  I just read an article in a leading poker publication by an excellent poker writer that contained some seriously flawed thinking. At least I think it did. Let me paraphrase and then quote what was written and then explain why I think it was...more