The Stud/8 situations I find most interesting are often those where you have what looks like a low hand but is actually a high hand or vice versa. I’ll post the hand first then say a few things about it: … Read more…
Once upon a time I considered myself a pretty decent Stud/8 player, but I’ve probably played fewer than 1000 hands in the last 6 months. Consequently, $1500 was a little more than I wanted to put behind my skillz. I … Read more…
I think this has been out for a few days, but I just noticed that Poker Stars has posted a tentative schedule for a yet-to-be-named tournament series in April. I love the format of offering a low-, medium-, and high-stakes … Read more…
Whining about every WCOOP I play is getting old, so I’ll just say that this was a pretty standard limit tournament in that I played for hours and didn’t come close to winning anything. At least it was fun and … Read more…
God what a grind this thing was. There were a little over 2000 runners, and after five and a half hours of playing, I was eliminated in 665th. It took five hours to get through two-thirds of the field. That’s … Read more…
I wanted to make this post about how bad people are at Stud/8, because they are. Split pot games will rip clueless players to shreds. O/8 is a pretty easy game to get, so you don’t see quite as many … Read more…
I was playing a little HORSE yesterday and made a read/laydown that might be standard/uninteresting for serious Stud/8 players but that made me happy. The villain, Berry Johnston, won the 1986 WSOP main event, and actually he and I played … Read more…
This was a $200 Stud/8. I got off to a great start and scooped like three reasonably sized pots in the first level. Unfortunately, the first level of a limit tournament is pretty irrelevent. After that I was getting run … Read more…
An illustrative S/8 hand I played recently: Hand #154526177047 Card Stud *High-Low* ($10/$20), Ante $1 *3rd Street* – (0.60 SB) somebody: xx xx Ah___raises___callsfoucault82: 4d 4h 4s___raisesbadabang: xx xx Jc___foldsluckymonkey9: xx xx 7c___foldsJshorts7: xx xx 5d___callsumhmm: xx xx 3h___folds *4th … Read more…
Ray Zee, the author of High-Low Split Poker for Advanced Players, posted a brief response to my review of his book on the Two Plus Two forums: “tnx for the review. i do believe all players would greatly benefit from … Read more…
Ray Zee’s book is rightly called, “For Advanced Players.” Players new to Stud/8 or O/8 will need to find another resource, as Zee largely glosses over basic material in favor of advanced thinking and plays. Though occasionally scattershot and disorganized, … Read more…
Stud/8 is one of my favorite poker games, and Ted Forrest’s Stud Eight-or-Better chapter in the Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition highlights many of the game’s most interesting, and potentially profitable, facets. Stud/8 is a complex game, with … Read more…
This kind of thing happens in Stud/8 sometimes: the pot goes multiway, and the players leading for each half of the pot keep jamming small edges but everyone else is priced in to keep calling along. The guy showing the … Read more…
Hand #128861866267 Card Stud *High-Low* ($5/$10), Ante $0.50 *3rd Street* – (0.80 SB) JRod34: xx xx 5d___foldsfoucault82: Jc Jd 3c360CF: xx xx 8d___callsKoolAidKills: xx xx 6h___foldsjcards911: xx xx 6s___callspanther44: xx xx 4d___callsMR WHOOOPS: xx xx Qd___foldslajollan: xx xx Jh___folds *4th … Read more…