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One of the big trends in new casino games is to take a poker variation and turn it into a house-banked casino game where you play against the dealer instead of against the other players. Cajun Stud Poker is one of this new breed of game.

I don’t think of these games as really being poker games. Instead, I consider games like Cajun Stud to be faux poker. One of the essential aspects of a poker game is the competition between you and the other players at the table.

Cajun Stud is the brainchild of a company called Galaxy Gaming, which makes a number of these kinds of card games.

The game is based loosely on 5-card stud, but it also has elements of Texas hold’em (community cards). You start by placing an ante bet. Then you have opportunities to raise or fold during the exposure of the cards. The game also features side bets.

The Rules for Playing Cajun Stud Poker

You play Cajun Stud with a standard deck of 52 cards. You start the game by placing a bet called an ante, and you can also place additional side bets — the board bonus bet, the pocket bonus bet, and the lo ball bet (I’ll cover the payouts for those bets later in this post).

Once you’ve placed your initial bet, you get two cards. The dealer also deals three community cards face-down.

After you’ve looked at your cards, you have the following options:

• You can fold
• You can raise

The size of your raise must be one or three times the size of the ante bet. This is your third street bet.

After that phase of betting is complete, the dealer flips over one of the three community cards.

Then, there’s another betting round with the same options. This is your fourth street bet.

After that, you get to see the next community card. You can again raise or fold. This is your fifth street bet.

Once that betting action is completed, the dealer reveals the final community card and pays off the bets.

With the knowledge of four cards, the player may again raise 1x to 3x his ante bet or fold.

Cajun Stud Bets and Payouts

The ante and raise bets get paid out based on the value of your 5-card poker hand.

• Royal flush pays off at 500 to 1
• Straight flush pays off at 100 to 1
• Four of a kind pays off at 40 to 1
• Full house pays off at 10 to 1
• Flush pays off at 6 to 1
• Straight pays off at 4 to 1
• Three of a kind pays off at 3 to 1
• Two pair pays off at 2 to 1
• A pair of jacks or higher pays off at even money
• A pair of 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, or 10s results in a push
• Any other hand results in a loss for the player

The board bonus bet is paid off based on the three community cards only.

• Royal flush pays off at 50 to 1
• Straight flush pays off at 40 to 1
• Three of a kind pays off at 30 to 1
• Straight pays off at 6 to 1
• Flush pays off at 3 to 1
• A pair pays off at even money
• Any other hand results in a loss for the player

The pocket bonus is paid off based on your two cards.

• A pair of aces pays off at 25 to 1
• A suited ace and a face card pay off at 20 to 1
• An unsuited ace and a face card pay off at 10 to 1
• Any other pair pays off at 5 to 1
• Any other hand results in a loss for the player

The lo ball bet is paid off based on the final 5-card hand, but the goal is to have a low hand.

• 7 high pays off at 100 to 1
• 8 high pays off at 50 to 1
• 9 high pays off at 15 to 1
• 10 high pays off at 5 to 1
• Jack high pays off at even money
• Any other hand results in a loss for the player

Probability, Odds, and the House Edge for Cajun Stud Poker

The house edge for the game, assuming you play with perfect strategy, is 1.4%. If you have no understanding of the strategy for the game, you can safely add between 2% and 4% to that number to account for the strategy mistakes you’ll surely make during the game.

The house edge for the side bets is much higher, and you should just skip the side bets altogether. We’re talking about 7% to 8%, which is worse than the house edge for American roulette, which is no great game, either.

You should put some effort into learning the strategy for Cajun Stud if you’re going to play. If you can afford it, you might also consider trying baccarat, where no strategy is necessary, and the house edge is comparable or better.

Cajun Stud Poker Strategy and How to Win More Often

The first strategy tip is simple enough.

Skip the side bets. The house edge is too high.

After that, strategy is as simple as knowing how much to bet at the various stages of your hands.

The first decision you have to make is on your third street bet. You should raise 3x the size of the ante if you have a pocket pair. Raise 2x the size of the ante if you have at least one high card. You should also raise 2x the size of the ante if you have two cards ranked between 6 and 10. Also, if you have the 5 and 6 of the same suit, you should raise 2x the ante.

You should fold if you have two cards lower than 6 unless you have 5-6 suited.

Once you’ve seen the first community card, you should raise 3x the size of the ante if you have any hand that’s already a winner (a made hand). You should also raise 3x the ante if you have a draw to a royal flush or to a straight flush.

You should raise the size of the ante if you have a flush draw, three cards ranked 6 through 10, or if you have a straight draw.

Otherwise, you should fold.

When you’ve seen the second community card, you should raise 3x the size of the ante with any made hand, any flush draw, and any outside straight draw.

You should raise the size of the ante with an inside straight draw, a low-ranked pair, or four cards ranked 6 through 10.

Conclusion

Cajun Stud Poker is a reasonably good casino game version of poker with a reasonably low house edge if you can remember how to play with the correct strategy. It’s a combination of stud poker, and Texas hold’em. If you had to compare it to anything, it probably most closely resembles Mississippi Stud.

The house edge is too high to make any of those bets attractive.

Then just keep in mind the relative value of the cards. Suited cards and connected cards are valuable because of their potential to make flushes and straights. High cards are valuable because the higher the pair is, the better it pays. Low pairs don’t pay well at all.

Also, and this is the easiest part of the strategy to remember:

Always raise the max if you have a made hand.

Stud poker is any of a number of pokervariants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round (it is usually the player whose face-up cards make the best hand for the game being played). The cards dealt face down to each individual player are called hole cards, which gave rise to the common English expression ace in the hole for any hidden advantage.

History[edit]

Stud poker variants using four cards were popular as of the American Revolutionary War. Five-card stud first appeared during the American Civil War when the game was much played among soldiers on both sides, and became very popular. Later, seven-card stud became more common, both in casinos and in home games.^[1] These two games form the basis of most modern stud poker variations.

Play[edit]

The number of betting rounds in a game influences how well the game plays with different betting structures. Games with four or fewer betting rounds, such as five-card stud and Mississippi stud, play well with any structure, and are especially well suited to no limit and pot limit play. Games with more betting rounds are more suited to fixed limit or spread limit. It is common (and recommended) for later betting rounds to have higher limits than earlier ones. For example, a '$5/$10 Seven-card Stud' game in a Nevada casino allows $5 bets for the first two rounds and $10 bets for subsequent rounds. Also common is to make the final round even higher: a '$5/$10/$20' game would allow $20 bets on the last round only. Another common rule is to allow the larger bet on the second round if there is an 'open pair' (that is, at least one player's upcards make a pair). Some casinos (typically in California) use the smaller limit on the first three rounds rather than just the first two.

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It is a common convention in stud poker to name the betting rounds after the number of cards each player holds when that betting round begins. So the bet that occurs when each player has three cards is called 'third card' or 'third street', while the bet that occurs when each player has five cards is 'fifth street'. The final round, regardless of the number of betting rounds, is commonly called the 'river' or simply the 'end'.

Specific variants[edit]

As mentioned above, seven-card stud is probably the most common form of the game, with most other games being variants of that, although five-card stud is also a basic pattern upon which many variations are built.

Six-card stud[edit]

Six-card stud is usually played as identical to seven-card stud, except that the last face-up round is removed (thus it is two down, three up, one down). With Flip, the last card is dealt face-down, but one of the face-down cards must be flipped face-up. Six-card stud can also be played as 1-4-1, where the first betting round occurs after only two cards are dealt (one down and one up). This latter form more closely resembles five-card stud with an extra downcard.

Razz[edit]

Razz is a variant where the lowest hand wins the pot instead of the highest. Versions differ in the rules for treating straights and flushes as high or low. London Lowball is a popular version that counts straights against the player.

High-low stud[edit]

High-low stud is played using high-low split betting, where the pot is split between the player with the highest hand and the player with the lowest hand. In the most common form, known as 'eight-or-better' or 'stud eight', an 8-high hand or lower is required to win low. If there is no qualifying low hand, high hand takes the entire pot.

Another form of high-low split stud is played under the same rules as stud eight, but there is no qualifier required for the low half of the pot. Often referred to as Q, it is much less common than stud eight, and is generally played at higher limits.

Mexican stud[edit]

Various forms of roll your ownfive-card stud, often with a stripped deck and wild cards, are called Mexican stud, Mexican poker, or stud loco. One such variant played by the Casino San Pablo in northern California has these rules: 8s, 9s, and 10s are stripped from the deck, and a single joker is added (the deck therefore contains 41 cards). The 7-spot and the J become consecutive, so that 5-6-7-J-Q is a straight. A flush beats a full house (with fewer cards of each suit, they are harder to get). The joker plays as a bug if it is face up, and fully wild if it is face down. The game is played as five-card stud choose-before roll your own. It is usually played with a very high ante, and the high card on the first round pays the bring-in.

The game of Shifting sands is Mexican stud in which each player's hole card (and all others of that rank) are wild for that player only.

Caribbean stud[edit]

Caribbean Stud Poker is a casino game that has been developed using the poker hands and general rules of 5 card stud poker. The game combines poker elements and standard table game elements in that each player dealt into the hand is playing against the dealer. Originally invented by gambling author David Sklansky using the name Casino Holdem with some slight rule variations,^{[citation needed]} the game was first introduced at the Grand Holiday Casino and eventually all the remaining hotels in Aruba in the 1980s.

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Miscellaneous[edit]

• Five-card stud played high-low split with an added twist round is called Option alley or five-card option.
• The game Scandinavian stud or Sökö is five-card stud with two new hand values added: Four-card flush and four-card straight. Hand ranking is therefore: High card, one pair, four-card straight, four-card flush, two pair and then on as usual. A four-card straightflush is not a hand in itself, it's merely counts as a four-card flush.
• The term English stud is used ambiguously to refer to several games, including six-card stud played 1-4-1 with a twist (also called six-card option), London lowball, and a seven-card stud game where both sixth street and seventh street are twist rounds.
• In the game of seven-card flip, each player is dealt four cards face down, and chooses two of them to turn up. All cards are turned up simultaneously after everyone has chosen. As this point, the game proceeds as if it were standard seven-card stud starting on fourth street.
• Kentrel, or '48', is a seven-card stud variation which starts with each player being dealt four downcards. Each player must then discard one, choose one of the remaining three to turn face up (leaving two down and one up as normal), and then proceed as with eight-or-better high-low stud.
• The game of Show Hand, which is not commonly played but made famous by Hong Kong gambling films, is a twist in 5 card stud. Players with the highest face up cards decide whether to check the round or raise; or, if the player with the highest face up card or hand checks, it will proceed to the next street. However, the last round of betting after the river is dealt is unlimited. In Show hand poker the last card is dealt face down. Players now choose from 1 of the 2 face down cards to reveal to other players. This variant is usually played with a set time-limit and bet limit to prevent players from taking advantage of checks and not betting to prolong the game.
• The game of Chicago is seven-card stud in which the high hand splits the pot with the player who has the highest-ranking spade 'in the hole' (among his downcards). There is also Little Chicago (also called Southside), in which the lowest ranking spade in the hole splits the pot; players who play Little Chicago call the high spade variant Big Chicago. This also known as Chicago high by night and Chicago low by night. In Chicago by night the Deuces and One-eyed jacks are usually called as wild cards.
• The Bitch is a variant on Chicago above, played with a combination of up and down cards, usually two down, four up, and one down. The twist is that the Queen of Spades is designated as the highest ranking Spade, followed by the Ace, King, Jack, and so on. Also, if the Queen of Spades is ever dealt as an upcard to any player, all players turn in their cards, re-ante, and replay the game. This can lead to quickly increasing pots, especially if the re-ante amount is increased on each iteration. The high hand splits the pot with the high spade.
• Several different games played only in low-stakes home games are called Baseball, and generally involve many wild cards (often 3s and 9s), paying the pot for wild cards, being dealt an extra upcard upon receiving a 4, and many other ad hoc rules (for example, the appearance of the queen of spades is called a 'rainout' and ends the hand, or that either red 7 dealt face-up is a rainout, but if one player has both red 7s in the hole, that outranks everything, even a 5 of a kind). These same rules can be applied to no peek, in which case the game is called 'night baseball'. See main article: Baseball Poker.
• Cowpie poker is played as seven-card stud until after the seventh-street bet. All remaining players then split their hands into a five-card hand and a two-card hand. The five-card hand must outrank the two-card hand, and the latter must contain at least one downcard. After the split there is one more betting round and showdown. Upon showdown, the highest five-card hand and the highest two-card hand split the pot. The name of the game is a pun on Pai Gow.
• Number Nine is a variant of seven-card stud in which 9s are wild, and any two number cards that add up to 9 may make one wild card, at the player's option. Aces count as 1 for wild card purposes. The player is not obliged to make any wild cards, and can play cards that could make 9s at face value or as wild cards, at his option. Cards used to make wild cards may not figure in the resulting hand twice. The player cannot add three or more cards. Sometimes, 9s themselves are not wild, and wild cards can be made only by addition.
• Dr Pepper is a stud variant where 10's, 2's, and 4's are wild (the name comes from one of the original Dr Pepper advertisements of the 1920s: 'Drink a Bite to Eat at 10, 2, and 4 o'clock').
• Draft (or 'socialist poker') is usually a variant of seven-card stud in which the second and subsequent upcard rounds are dealt this way: for each player remaining, one upcard is dealt to the center of the table (not to any specific player). The player with the worst showing hand gets to choose which of them he will take for his next upcard, then the player with the second-worst showing hand chooses his upcard from those left, and so on, until the player who previously had the best showing hand takes the remaining card. Then betting occurs as normal. In seven-card stud, this makes for three 'draft' rounds (the first three cards are dealt normally, as is the final downcard).
• Auction is a similar variation in which each upcard round (or possibly just those after the first) begins with an 'auction' phase. Instead of dealing each player one upcard, the first card is dealt to the center and all players bid on it; the player who bids the highest amount places that amount into the pot, and then has the right to either keep the auction card as his own upcard, or designate another player who is required to take it as his. After the first card is auctioned off and placed, the remaining players are dealt a random upcard as usual, and betting proceeds as usual. This variation is commonly played as high-low split, so it is common for a player to 'purchase' a high card to force it upon an opponent seeking low, for example.
• Telesina is a stud variant which is played with a stripped 'French' deck. The play follows most five card stud games except that after the fourth betting round a 6th community card called the vela card is placed in the center of the table. The vela card may be used by all players to improve their hand after which another round of betting occurs. The standard hand ranking applies with the slight difference in that a flush beats a full house because it is easier to get a full house than a flush. This is because instead of 13 cards per suit there are only 8 having the cards from 2-6 removed.

Notes and references[edit]

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