With the 2016 World Series of Poker just over a month away, variants other than no-limit hold’em are starting to gain some extra attention as there are so many non-NLHE offerings on the WSOP schedule. For that reason, I’m taking a slight departure from my typical columns about home games to spend the next few looking at seven-card stud strategy.
Stud is infrequently spread as a stand-alone cash game, and aside from the WSOP is rarely featured in tournaments in public poker rooms these days. Gone are the days when it was the most common form of poker, replaced as it has been by hold’em in both its limit and no-limit format.