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Seven Card Stud: The Low Hand Bluff
Utilize a great bluffing strategy in your split-pot home games
If your home game is like ours, you probably enjoy playing split-pot games. The bluffing maneuver we're going to cover works great in a split-pot seven-card stud game.
To work this bluff, you need a board (the up cards in a seven-card stud game) that works to your favor. In seven-card stud cards are dealt two down and one up. The first up cards are referred to as door cards. You are looking for a group of door cards that looks something like: J, A, K, 8, 5, 9, 4 and 2, with you holding the 2. If you are facing this type of action, you are in a great spot to push the pot regardless of what your hole cards are. What you are trying to do is represent your 2 as a very strong low hand even if it isn't. If you can get the other low looking hands to fold, you can waltz your way to half the pot.
Be careful where you use this bluff. If there are too many low door cards it increases the chances of somebody having a legitimate low hand. Ideally, you want to be facing no other low cards. Do not attempt this play if there are more than two other low cards on the board.
The beauty of this play is that if you're fortunate enough to be dealt a deuce or trey in a split pot game, you have the ability to use the weakness of the other players' hands against them. And isn't that what poker is all about!?
What happens if you get cards that run contrary to your bluff? This depends on how big the cards are. Remember, nobody knows what your hole cards are so it doesn't matter if they get paired. You do, of course, want low looking cards. A good low hand is 7-6, or sometimes even 8-7. Anything that gives the appearance of your hand looking as good, or better, than that can help you sustain the bluff.
The cards will not always cooperate with your maneuver. If they the cards come too high, it will be necessary to give up the strategy. Of course, it doesn't really matter if the players that could beat you have already folded.
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