Last time we had a squiz (that’s Australian slang for “a quick look”) at some strategies and tactics for playing Texas hold ’em. This time we’ll do the same for seven-card stud. As in hold ’em, the most important thing you can do in seven-card stud is choose the right hands to play. In most low-limit stud games, your opponents will be much too liberal, too loose in their starting requirements. If you just make your starting requirements more rigorous than theirs, you can consistently make money on the margin. Seven-card stud, as you know, starts out the deal with two cards down and one card up to…
