This book serves as a comprehensive guide, walking beginners and low-stakes players—which make up 95% of the 7-stud player base—through the process of turning a profit from seven-card stud. It also offers guidance to moderately experienced players on transitioning from losing to winning. The book’s clear and succinct chapters guide the reader from understanding the game’s rules and basic strategies to mastering play from the third to seventh streets in high, low (razz), and high-low variations.
Topics covered include initial card selection, positional play, determining which hands to carry through to the end, when to raise, check-raising, tells, choosing the right game and seat, seven-card stud probabilities, record keeping, pot odds, bluffing, hand reading, poker psychology, and more. This book is an excellent resource for players at the lower limits.
