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    • Five Card Stud Introduction


    Although Five Card Stud has, in recent years, been largely overshadowed by the ubiquitous but fantastically playable Texas Hold'em, there was a time when it was the poker game everyone played. A measure of the dominance of Hold'em is the fact that it is the only game which has featured on the WSOP Main Event in it's forty year history. During the 19th century, documentary evidence suggests that little else was played when it came to gambling and wagering money on the turn of a card.



    Legend has it that Five Card Stud was a favourite game of gold rush miners and civil war soldiers but it's almost certainly European in origin, making it's way across the Atlantic sometime during the 19th century. In those days it was a slightly different game, games were only played with Tens through to Aces meaning that twenty cads were used in total. Subsequently the rules were a little different as well, limiting the winning hands available and the number of players.



    In the 1920s, the rules were standardised and the use of a whole pack become widespread. It has not changed since those days and still commands a large following, especially in live casino play. The advent of online casinos has also brought Five Card Stud to a wider audience and it's popularity is on the rise again.


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    It's not a tough game to learn and the rules are as follows:


    Five Card Stud is sometimes played with an ante but usually also with a bring-in. The ante is a small mandatory bet placed by all players before play. The dealer distributes two cards to each player - one face up and one face down. If a bring-in is required, the player with the lowest rank face-up card must shoulder that burden. If there is no bring-in, the player with the highest ranked face up card will begin the betting.



    There is now a round of betting following the bring-in and each player can check, raise or fold as they wish. Three more face up cards are dealt to each player, known as third street, fourth street and fifth street, and after each a round of betting follows. It is relatively unusual for a round of Five Card Stud to go right to the showdown, most players will have folded by then, but if we do see the showdown, the remaining players will compare their hands and a winner will be determined according to general Poker rankings. When only one card is hidden from view from the other players, folding is common as your chances of bluffing are somewhat limited.



    So, a pretty simple game to grasp as long as you have a grip on the hand rankings and for a bunch of new players unfamiliar with bluffing, it's an ideal introduction to gaming. More experienced players will often add their own twists to the game to provide a bit of variety if the other players are in agreement.



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