Caribbean Poker Protocols and Pointers
Poker has become globally acclaimed recently, with televised events and celebrity poker game events. The games popularity, though, stretches back in reality a bit further than its television ratings. Over the years numerous variants on the earliest poker game have been developed, including some games that are not in fact poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of these games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is most closely affiliated with twenty-one than traditional poker, in that the players wager against the dealer instead of each other. The winning hands, are the long-standing poker hands. There is no bluffing or other types of bamboozlement. In Caribbean stud poker, you are required to ante up just before the dealer saying "No further bets." At that moment, both you and the bank and of course all of the other players receive five cards each. Once you have observed your hand and the dealer’s 1st card, you have to in turn make a call wager or surrender. The call wager’s amount is equal to your beginning ante, which means that the stakes will have increased two fold. Abandoning means that your wager goes immediately to the dealer. After the wager is the conclusion. If the house does not have ace/king or greater, your wager is returned, with a figure in accordance with the original wager. If the casino has a hand with ace/king or better, you succeed if your hand is greater than the casino’s hand. The house pony’s up money equal to your bet and fixed expectations on your call bet. These expectations are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for 2 pairs
- three to one for three of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- seven to one for a full house
- twenty to one for a 4 of a kind
- fifty to one for a straight flush
- 100-1 for a royal flush