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Posted by: Mike Church at January 17, 2005, 5:43 am

Topic: Different Poker Games Forum: Card Chat

I like Hold 'em, but I really think 7-stud and Omaha are better, at least for the math geek.

NL Hold 'em is incredibly dramatic, and the psychological element is unignorable, but this also means it depends a lot on the players. I've been in NL Hold 'em games that weren't much fun, because NLTHe relies on emergent behavior to make the game fun.

7-card stud is more my cup of tea. Hold 'em only throws 169 nonequivalent possible starting hands at you, and the correct strategy with 80+% of them is, simply, Fold. I find Hold 'em to be a bit simple in this regard. Also, I find the "crackings" really unpleasant-- it happens in any poker game that sometimes your great hand is whacked by someone's better hand, but Texas is conducive to that. You might have two mediocre spades, plus three on the board, and be rooting against a river spade (which may make a higher flush somewhere, and you've already got yours)-- but the idea of poker is that your hand improves, not declines, with each round of betting. In 7-card stud, you almost never have the "nuts", but if you've got a flush or full, chances are it's a winning hand, enough that the flukes are negligible.

Also, 7-card stud provides way more than 169 starting hands, especially with the attention that has to be paid to door cards; this makes 7-stud a combinatorial behemoth (in terms of possibilities) compared to THe.

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