Poker has become globally celebrated recently, with televised tournaments and celebrity poker game events. The games universal appeal, though, stretches back in fact a bit further than its television ratings. Over the years many types on the original poker game have been created, including a few games that are not quite poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is 1 of these games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely related to chemin de fer than traditional poker, in that the players bet against the dealer rather than each other. The winning hands, are the long-standing poker hands. There is no concealment or different types of deceptiveness. In Caribbean stud poker, you are required to ante up prior to the croupier announcing "No more bets." At that moment, both you and the house and of course all of the different gamblers are given five cards each. Once you have seen your hand and the bank’s first card, you have to either make a call wager or bow out. The call wager’s amount is equal to your beginning bet, which means that the risks will have increased two fold. Abandoning means that your bet goes directly to the bank. After the bet is the face off. If the bank doesn’t have ace/king or better, your bet is given back, plus an amount equal to the ante. If the house has a hand with ace/king or greater, you succeed if your hand is greater than the casino’s hand. The dealer pays out money even with your wager and set odds on your call bet. These odds are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for two pairs
- three to one for 3 of a kind
- 4-1 for a straight
- 5-1 for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- 20-1 for a 4 of a kind
- fifty to one for a straight flush
- one hundred to one for a royal flush