Latest Stud Post

As promised, in this, and upcoming blogs, I am going to delve into the analysis of specific hands. Today's blog will cover a "classic" Stud hand, specifically when to play the split underpair, with an unrelated kicker, against a raising or re-raising higher door card on 3rd street. Whenever I analyze these types of hands, I am assuming that your cards (your pair and your kicker) are completely "live," i.e., where no others of those ranks can be seen at that point in the hand. When I refer to an "unrelated kicker", I mean that this card is unlikely to ...more