Web poker has become world acclaimed recently, with televised championships and celebrity poker game shows. The games universal appeal, though, stretches back in fact a bit further than its television scores. Over the years numerous variations on the original poker game have been created, including some games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of these games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is most closely related to vingt-et-un than traditional poker, in that the players wager against the casino instead of the other players. The winning hands, are the long-standing poker hands. There is no conniving or different kinds of deception. In Caribbean stud poker, you are required to ante up before the croupier announcing "No more wagers." At that instance, both you and the house and of course every one of the other gamblers are given five cards each. Once you have observed your hand and the casino’s first card, you need to either make a call wager or give up. The call bet’s amount is akin to your beginning bet, which means that the stakes will have increased two fold. Abandoning means that your ante goes instantaneously to the casino. After the bet comes the face off. If the bank doesn’t have ace/king or better, your bet is returned, with an amount in accordance with the original bet. If the casino has a hand with ace/king or greater, you succeed if your hand is greater than the dealer’s hand. The house pays chips equal to your bet and fixed expectations on your call bet. These odds are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- two to one for two pairs
- three to one for three of a kind
- 4-1 for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- twenty to one for a four of a kind
- fifty to one for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush