Do you know what the best thing about this game is?" Jim said as he pulled his chair up next to me at the Caribbean Stud table. "You can play for a long time before running out of money. I don't know why casinos keep these games around!" That's a typical and all-too-common sentiment felt by most players of the game Caribbean Stud poker. They think that just because it takes them longer to go broke, it must be an easy game.
"I thought the object of gambling was winning," I responded. "Not seeing how long takes to lose."
"Well sure," he said. "But I always lose anyway, so I might as well play a game that I like. Besides, this one's really easy."Sound familiar?
If you ask most players if they're good at Caribbean Stud, they typically answerI've got some news for you. Any game is easy to play. Playing, however, is very different from winning. To win, you have to play correctly, using the proper strategy
and money management techniques that professionals have been preaching for decades.
Let's take a quick test and see how well you know the basic strategy for Caribbean Stud.