Internet poker has become world acclaimed recently, with televised competitions and celebrity poker game shows. Its universal appeal, though, stretches back in reality a bit farther than its TV scores. Over the years many variations on the earliest poker game have been developed, including a few games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of these games. Regardless of the name, Caribbean stud poker is most closely related to twenty-one than old guard poker, in that the players wager against the house rather than the other players. The winning hands, are the established poker hands. There is little concealment or different types of deceptiveness. In Caribbean stud poker, you are required to pay up just before the dealer saying "No further wagers." At that instance, both you and the dealer and of course every one of the other gamblers attain 5 cards each. After you have looked at your hand and the dealer’s first card, you must in turn make a call bet or bow out. The call bet’s value is equal to your beginning bet, indicating that the stakes will have doubled. Abandoning means that your wager goes immediately to the house. After the bet is the conclusion. If the bank doesn’t have ace/king or greater, your wager is returned, including a sum in accordance with the original wager. If the dealer does have ace/king or better, you win if your hand defeats the casino’s hand. The bank pony’s up chips even with your wager and set odds on your call wager. These odds are:

  • Even for a pair or high card
  • 2-1 for 2 pairs
  • 3-1 for three of a kind
  • four to one for a straight
  • five to one for a flush
  • seven to one for a full house
  • 20-1 for a 4 of a kind
  • fifty to one for a straight flush
  • one hundred to one for a royal flush