Stud Eight Or Better

Seven Card Stud Eight or Better
(Also known as: Stud 8 / b Stud Hi / Lo)

This is item number 6 of 6 of the "Horse Poker Introduction Series".

Overview:

Seven Card Stud Eight or Better is the E "horse", this game is really starting to gain popularity since becoming a part of games mix years, the game itself is very difficult, many players seem to have trouble mastering this game of strategy, if you want to master this game, we have great advantage over other players on tournament horse.
Today you can find poker room more and more that support for this game, try to practice as much as you can.

How to play:

Stud 8 / b is very similar to the regular Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud, but the best low hand wins receive half of the pot as well. If you are not yet familiar with the games low, you should ask yourself: "What?? The lowest hand wins?? "Yes! The lowest hand has half the pot.
To qualify for the low hand, you have 5 cards 8 or lower and not matched by example: Ace, 2, 4, 6, 7 = eligible, Ace, 2, 4, 4, 7 = are ineligible!
If nobody has a right hand low, the player with the best hand "scoop" the pot, which means take everything.

2007 WSOP - Event # 24 - Stud 8 / b:

At 2007 WSOP Event No. 24: Eli Elezra won the Stud 8 event / b> and won $ 651.360. It beats the field of 236 players. The buy-in amount was $ 3,000 per player, Eli's first WSOP gold bracelet. The runner-up of this tournament was Scotty Nguyen, Scotty is one of the best poker players of all time.