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Summary: See a classification example of baseball poker that will illustrate for you how the game is typically played. Learn more in this free video series.
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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
So baseball falls into the stud classification of poker variants, let's make sure we know what that means. We have four players in our little hypothetical game here and each has ante one chips and we'll just start dealing like. In a stud game typically there are two cards down (2 each player) and then one card up this is the initial deal and it's stud after the first up card. The lowest up card is forced to do what is called the bring in we'll say that they bring in is the one chip and then anybody who wants to play if they are in they bet 2 chips. And now over here we can choose to call the rest of the bet or fold, we'll say everybody called. Then what happens is there is another up card.