Caribbean Poker Rules and Pointers
Internet poker has become world celebrated lately, with televised tournaments and celebrity poker game shows. The games universal appeal, though, stretches back quite a bit farther than its television scores. Over the years many variants on the original poker game have been developed, including some games that are not in fact poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of the above-mentioned games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is most closely related to twenty-one than long-standing poker, in that the gamblers wager against the house rather than each other. The succeeding hands, are the established poker hands. There is little conniving or other types of boondoggle. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to pay up before the dealer announcing "No further bets." At that moment, both you and the dealer and of course all of the other players are given 5 cards each. After you have looked at your hand and the casino’s first card, you need to either make a call bet or surrender. The call bet’s amount is akin to your original wager, which means that the stakes will have doubled. Giving Up means that your wager goes directly to the casino. After the bet is the face off. If the house does not have ace/king or better, your wager is returned, with a sum on par with the ante. If the casino has a hand with ace/king or better, you succeed if your hand beats the bank’s hand. The bank pony’s up cash even with your bet and set odds on your call bet. These expectations are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- two to one for 2 pairs
- three to one for 3 of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- 5-1 for a flush
- seven to one for a full house
- twenty to one for a four of a kind
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush