7 Card Stud playing 7th street

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7th street is the most action packed street in a hand of Stud. Now, 7th street can be either incredibly profitable or incredibly costly, depending on how you play it. 7th street will of course be the final factor in your hand, but it adds a twist to the entire landscape. On the prior streets you had been dealt a doorcard that was face up for everyone to see, on 7th street you are dealt a card face down that only you can see. This makes everything a bit more complex. How does it make things more complex? Well for one it will allow you to throw your opponents for a loop. If you are showing four spades it wouldn’t be all that difficult to bluff them out of the pot, after all it is certainly possible that you are hiding the last card that makes your hand. At the same time, however, your opponent might perceive you as weak, a factor that might be heavily influenced by your final card. If your hand reads somewhat weak from what your opposition can tell it will be extremely valuable and profitable to be dealt a very strong card on 7th street. Let’s take a look at an example of how 7th street might make you extremely strong, but make you look very weak.
If your hand is 4 K 7 5 6 K 8 it will be quite easy to make the other players think that your hand tops out with your pair of kings. This type of situation of course assumes that your opponents are somewhat amateurish in their play, though, as most would not read your hand only at face value.

Continuing with the same example as above, if your hand is 7d 8s Ks As Qd 6s Jh it would be rather easy to tell a lie in pretending that you have completed your flush. Not only will the other player consider the possibility that you had made your flush on 6th street, but they will have one more seed of doubt when you are dealt the final card face down that could have absolutely been the nail in their coffin. This exact hand is even better to bluff with when we consider that it includes the As, which would of course give us not only a flush, but the nut flush. From the other player’s point of view it would make sense that we chased a flush because we had the ace to work with. All of these factors would make this type of hand the perfect one to bluff with. The same could be said for a hand that puts out four cards to a straight.

You might be wondering why now is a good time to bluff if 5th and 6th streets weren’t. The truth is that you probably shouldn’t have been chasing all the way to 7th street, but it is different if you had planned to represent the flush on 6th street. A bluff on 7th street will often lead to disaster, but if you had played your hand like the one you are pretending to have there is no reason that your opponent should see through it.

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