Street Poker

Such strategies are often a part of televised cash games. After all, players are often contracted for such shows based on their entertainment value rather than their strategic prowess even if they are otherwise very sound strategically.

Such players will often be uncomfortable with higher level disciplines such as database analysis, application of game theory and other mathematical concepts.

When asked why they take certain actions at the table, they may not be able to provide satisfactory explanations in terms of theory.

Despite this, they may do well in terms of results and in some cases be able to pass along their skillset to make others winning players also.

Knowing the names of various streets is presumably not a pre-requisite to being a winning player. Connecting with higher level concepts such as application of game theory and practical database analysis is recommended for maximum success.

Top Menu. How to play. Download Now. Category Menu. Accordingly, they play for either the high or the low, depending on their first three cards.

This expands their range of playable hands from the traditionally good starting hands for stud hi:. It adds good starting razz hands as well, including three unpaired cards ranked 8 or lower.

This creates a very broad range of playable starting cards. Fortunately for the skilled stud-8 player , this is an awful, stack-depleting strategy.

Follow it and you will lose. Winning stud-8 strategy is to play for hands that can scoop — that is, win both the high and the low. What kind of hands are those?

Chiefly, they are low hands that can also back into a high hand. Accordingly, you should fold nearly all of the traditionally strong one-way high hands like high pairs.

Kings, queens, jacks, 10s, and nines are largely unplayable. But for the most part, fold them, even for the bring-in. Aces are playable because they are always the very highest pair and because they can also go low.

But they lose a lot of value without a low kicker. Similarly, all of those two-card lows are out. Another way of looking at it would be as a litmus test for whether or not you are betting for value.

If your hand figures to be the favorite at over half of all showdowns, you hand had three streets of value. In the example above, a hand that has three streets of value is typically a very strong hand, if not the nuts.

An exception might be a table full of crazy maniacs. Most hands are not that strong. If you have a value hand, your goal should be to get the hand to showdown, and to bet it as many times as you can, and still be getting value.

Hull brings up a hand involving Hero making a lite raise the button with A5 vs. On this flop, this answer would be yes. Straight draws and flush draws are calling.

Being called by a weaker ace is interesting to contemplate, because by the time the river arrives, your kicker is not likely to play, and a lower one would just chop.

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