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Caribbean Poker Rules and Pointers
Internet poker has become world famous lately, with televised competitions and celebrity poker game events. The games universal appeal, though, stretches back in fact a bit farther than its television scores. Over the years numerous variants on the earliest poker game have been developed, including some games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of these particular games. Regardless of the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely resembling chemin de fer than traditional poker, in that the players wager against the bank rather than the other players. The winning hands, are the long-standing poker hands. There is little bluffing or other types of bamboozlement. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to ante up before the croupier broadcasting "No further bets." At that moment, both you and the casino and of course all of the different players acquire 5 cards each. After you have looked at your hand and the casino’s first card, you need to in turn make a call bet or accede. The call bet’s value is on same level to your original ante, meaning that the stakes will have increased two fold. Abandoning means that your wager goes immediately to the casino. After the wager comes the face off. If the house does not have ace/king or greater, your wager is given back, including a sum in accordance with the ante. If the casino has a hand with ace/king or greater, you succeed if your hand defeats the casino’s hand. The house pays out money even with your ante and set expectations on your call wager. These odds are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- two to one for two pairs
- three to one for 3 of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- 5-1 for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- 20-1 for a four of a kind
- fifty to one for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush