Player B will hit his flush around 24% of the time, and, when that occurs, Player A will still hit his fullhouse making Player B the winner about 22% of the time.īut consider if two other players, instead of zero, saw fourth street.

Five folded cards are known, the six cards in Player A's hand are known, and four cards in Player B's hand are known. Simply, in the stud game, if only Player A and B saw 4th street, Player A had AA (neither heart), and QQ64 showing (no hearts) and player B had KJ53 (KJ are hearts) showing, calculations are fairly straight forward. That is the first complication in this heads-up scenario. The number of players at the holdem table is irrelevant. There are seven players at the stud table. In the following examples, Player A has two pair A%Q and Player B has a flush draw. It is much easier to become, at least, competent, in holdem. Seven card stud lost popularity to holdem because 7card stud is a more difficult game which favors the better player. I am not including NL in the mix because it wasnt relevent at the time. Also stud bankrolls tend to have higher fluctuations than limit hold'em bankrolls. Its out of fashion right now because there wasn't enough action compared to limit Hold'em. So when people say stud is higher-variance, do they literally mean it's both higher variance and higher EV? But I won't complain, because my edge will be so much higher.) (In other words, if you show me a new poker game that sends me home $1 million winner half of my sessions, and dead even the other half of my sessions, that's much higher variance than anything I currently play.

I understand that expectation and variance can both be higher, and that much of what people call 'variance' is their perception that's heightened because their edge isn't as much as they'd like it to be. OK, good points, but as I understand it it's also higher variance for good players, right? 3) It costs more to chase in stud since you have to pay to see the cards one at a time (no flop, which has 3 cards for one round of betting) 2) Stronger players have more of an advantage in stud in reading multiple porches, remembering which cards have been folded, recalculating odds, etc. **Highjack alert**Actually, weaker players will lose more quickly in stud than LHE.

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