Poker has become globally celebrated lately, with televised tournaments and celebrity poker game shows. Its popularity, though, stretches back in reality a bit further than its television ratings. Over the years many variations on the earliest poker game have been created, including a handful of games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of the above-mentioned games. Regardless of the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely affiliated with chemin de fer than long-standing poker, in that the gamblers wager against the bank rather than the other players. The winning hands, are the traditional poker hands. There is no conniving or different types of deception. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to ante up just before the dealer announcing "No further bets." At that instance, both you and the house and of course all of the other gamblers acquire five cards each. After you have observed your hand and the bank’s 1st card, you need to in turn make a call wager or give up. The call bet’s value is equal to your beginning wager, meaning that the stakes will have increased two fold. Abandoning means that your wager goes directly to the dealer. After the wager comes the conclusion. If the bank does not have ace/king or better, your bet is given back, with a figure in accordance with the ante. If the dealer has a hand with ace/king or better, you succeed if your hand is greater than the bank’s hand. The house pays out cash even with your ante and controlled expectations on your call wager. These odds are:
- Even for a pair or high card
- two to one for two pairs
- 3-1 for 3 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
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- 100-1 for a royal flush