Caribbean Poker Rules and Pointers
Online poker has become world famous recently, with televised championships and celebrity poker game shows. The games popularity, though, stretches back in fact a bit farther than its television ratings. Over the years several variations on the earliest poker game have been developed, including some games that are not quite poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is 1 of these games. Regardless of the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely resembling chemin de fer than traditional poker, in that the players bet against the dealer rather than the other players. The winning hands, are the traditional poker hands. There is no bluffing or other types of boondoggle. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to pay up prior to the dealer declares "No more wagers." At that point, both you and the house and of course all of the other gamblers receive five cards each. Once you have looked at your hand and the casino’s first card, you have to either make a call wager or give up. The call wager’s amount is on same level to your original bet, which means that the risks will have increased two fold. Bowing out means that your wager goes immediately to the casino. After the wager comes the showdown. If the dealer does not have ace/king or greater, your bet is returned, plus a figure equal to the original wager. If the casino does have ace/king or better, you win if your hand defeats the bank’s hand. The house pays chips even with your ante and fixed expectations on your call wager. These expectations are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for 2 pairs
- three to one for three of a kind
- 4-1 for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- seven to one for a full house
- 20-1 for a four of a kind
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush
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