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The Game From Texas Aint no Stud
Anyone who tells you that Texas Hold’em is the purest brand of poker is dead wrong. I am of the opinion that Texas Hold’em although perhaps a game with history and tradition is not the game I grew up learning as a child as most of my peers can attest to. When I began to learn how to play poker it was not by watching the World Series which has reached an all-time high in popularity. It was five card stud that taught me how to play. Bluffing is a huge part of the game and it was on five card games that I learned the art of how and when to bluff. There are fewer secrets when all a player has to do is think about two cards that the opposing player may be holding.
In addition, there is even less of a secret element to the game of Texas Hold’em considering that the other cards a player uses in his hand are common to the table and full view. The real trick in my opinion is to know what your opponent is holding when you have to think about five cards and without the assistance of community cards to give you an idea of what the possibilities may be. Luck is part of both games but it is in five card poker where luck can only take you so far. Unlike Texas Hold’em where a player can make a hand from five of seven cards on the table, in five card poker, a player can only use what they get and are not given any choice in the matter.
It is from that point on that a player has to decide whether to bluff with nothing or to bet with the confidence that their hand is better than what their opponent is holding. Even in games with a drop, what a player picks up is a mystery because there is no basis of knowing what they were holding prior to the drop. Television may want to show the sexy world of Texas Hold’em but it is five card games where the men are truly separated from the boys.
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