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Summary: Learn about baseball poker, its rules and how it varies from other forms of poker in this free video series that will show you how to master this poker variation in no time.
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About the Expert
Reg Brittain Like many, Reg Brittain has benefited from the poker boom of recent years. He learned poker at age 9 from his “Papaw”, and he has been thankful ever since. In... read more
I would be the first to admit that I do not like to watch baseball in television. In my opinion, televised baseball is just plain boring. Now there is a type of baseball that is not boring at all, it's the baseball variant of poker. In fact it's quite exciting. It can have a couple of twist and turns, it has wild cards which a lot of people have in poker and there is even an opportunity to draw an extra card. So that gives you an element of kind of a twist and turny thing and when it comes to the showdown it's a stud game. So you are using your best five card hand out of seven or getting an extra card out of eight so you have more opportunity. So let's look now at the rules of baseball, how it's dealt and how it's played.