7 card stud poker - Third round limit Poker

During the last rounds of limit seven-card stud, the key to your strategy is to have a good fix on what the other player are either holding, or holding out for.

Again, there can be no absolutes, but you must make some sort of judgement. You have seen a lot of cards and so have your opponents. As long as he is not a fool, each player remaining in the hand is there for a reason, and you will have several clues as to what it is. One is when and how he has bet or raised; another is how he has reacted to your up cards.

An important point to remember is that the third round of a limit game is probably your last opportunity to persuade your opponents to drop out by the size of your bet. After this point there is usually enough money in the pot, relative to the fixed limit, that the size of a bet may have little impact.

While big enough bets can usually drop some players, it is not always possible in limit Poker for one player to make a big enough bet at this stage to drive players out of the game, unless a second player is raising.