Internet poker has become globally acclaimed recently, with televised championships and celebrity poker game shows. The games popularity, though, arcs back quite a bit further than its television scores. Over the years several variants on the earliest poker game have been developed, including a few games that are not in fact poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of these games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely affiliated with twenty-one than traditional poker, in that the players wager against the bank rather than the other players. The succeeding hands, are the traditional poker hands. There is little conniving or other types of bamboozlement. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to ante up prior to the dealer broadcasting "No further wagers." At that point, both you and the casino and of course every one of the different gamblers are given five cards each. After you have looked at your hand and the bank’s 1st card, you need to in turn make a call wager or give up. The call wager’s value is equal to your beginning wager, meaning that the risks will have doubled. Bowing out means that your ante goes directly to the house. After the wager is the showdown. If the bank does not have ace/king or greater, your wager is returned, including a figure equal to the initial wager. If the house has a hand with ace/king or better, you succeed if your hand defeats the bank’s hand. The bank pony’s up cash equal to your original bet and set expectations on your call bet. These odds are:
- Even for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for 2 pairs
- three to one for 3 of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- twenty to one for a four of a kind
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush
