Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
1. Crazy Five Card High-Low Stud begins with each player receiving
1. Crazy Five Card High-Low Stud begins with each player receiving a hole card. The dealer then deals an upcard to the leader (player at his left). The leader has two alternatives: He may keep the upcard or pass it on to the player on his left. If he passes it on, he receives another dealt upcard, which he must keep. However, if he decides to keep the original dealt card, the dealer deals an upcard for the next player in turn. This player also has the option of keeping the upcard or passing it to the next rightful player. 2. The procedure continues clockwise around the table with each player either accepting a passed upcard or passing it on to the player on his left and having the dealer deal him an upcard in its place, which he must keep; or if he has not been passed a card, the dealer must deal him an upcard, and he has the option of keeping the upcard or passing it to the player on his left, in which case he will be dealt a second upcard, which he must keep. In any event, a player is not permitted to accept a passed card and have an upcard dealt to him too. 3. The above procedure continues until the dealer's turn of play, when he is bound by the following rules: He may accept a passed card or refuse it and burn it (place it face up) on the bottom of the deck. If he refuses it, he deals himself an upcard, which he must keep. If a passed card has not been offered to him, he may keep his first dealt upcard, or burn it and deal himself a second upcard, which he must keep. 4. When each player has received a hole card and his first upcard, a betting interval takes place. After the betting, the dealer deals a second round of upcards and the play continues as before. This deal is again followed by a betting interval, and this procedure of play and betting continues until each remaining player has a hole card and four upcards and the fourth betting interval takes place. 5. And now comes another unusual aspect of this fascinating game: a delayed showdown. Each remaining player in turn may discard his hole card or any upcard and be dealt another card in its place. If a hole card is discarded, a face-down card is dealt in its place. If an upcard is discarded, a face-up card is dealt in its place.
6. The fifth and final round of betting then takes place, followed by a
6. The fifth and final round of betting then takes place, followed by a high-low showdown. At the showdown, the highest and the lowest hands divide the pot equally.