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Caribbean Stud

INTRODUCTION

Caribbean Stud poker is a new poker variant that’s a lot of fun to play and is known for huge jackpots that gain in size very fast, allowing you win a lot of money quickly.

It was introduced at The Holiday Inn & Casino (now called the Excelsior Casino) in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in the late 1980s, making it a very new poker game. Its popularity spread to the rest of the Caribbean and the cruise ships sailing through its crystal waters. By the early 1990s, the game made its way to Las Vegas where it’s been a crowd favorite ever since.

Caribbean Stud is played on a table that looks like the one used in Blackjack. And like Blackjack, you play against the casino and not other players. So if you were never that good at reading peoples’ poker faces, this is the game for you! It’s also a great game for players who don’t have a strong understanding of poker strategy and still want to win a lot of money.

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HOW TO PLAY THE GAME

The object of the game is to beat the dealer’s five-card hand. The same hand rankings in other poker games are used in this game, with one extra hand: An Ace King.

The Caribbean Stud table has three areas in front of each player where they put their antes and bets: The ante box, the bet circle and the box for progressive jackpots. It’s played with the standard 52-card deck with up to six players. PLEASE MAKE BETER-LOOKING GRAPHIC OF THE LAYOUT OF THE TABLE Below:

Figure 1 Caribbean Stud poker table.

The game starts with everybody putting chips on the ante box this is your wager and the value of the chips must be within the minimum and maximum table limits. Then the dealer deals every player four cards face-down and four cards to himself and a final fifth card is dealt to everyone  face-up.

Have a peek at your cards and decide if you’re going to bet or fold. No more cards are dealt this is it. You need to decide if your hand is strong enough to beat the dealer’s. Also look at the Caribbean Stud strategy page to give you help you make better decisions.

If you don’t like your hand and want to fold, you lose your ante wager.

If you think you can beat the dealer, you need to bet more money. This is a call bet. To do this, put double the amount of your initial ante in the betting circle on the table. It’s mandatory that it’s at least double the ante.

After all of the other players have folded or bet, the dealer turns all of his cards face-up so everyone can see his hand. The dealer then turns over the players’ cards, doing one person at a time.

PAYOUT

The winning hand is determined the same way in other poker games, but the payout is different. There’s this business of whether or not the dealer’s hand is ‘qualified.’ That means he has a hand that has at least an Ace King or better. Take a look at the hand rankings table again if the dealer has any of those hands, then his hand is qualified.

When the dealer’s hand doesn’t qualify, antes and call bets are paid out even money (no additional money).

This means that for all of the players who stayed in the game (didn’t fold) and placed a call bet get their antes back whether they beat the dealer or not. If you did beat the dealer, you’re given your ante and call bet chips back without any extra money. This would be frustrating if you were holding a royal flush and beat the dealer you don’t get any extra money for that. (Progressive side bets are always paid out regardless if the dealer qualified or not.) You would have gotten more money for a stronger hand if the dealer’s hand was qualified.

If the dealer’s hand is qualified and your hand doesn’t beat his, you lose your ante and call bet chips. If your hand beats his, then you’re paid out according to this payout schedule:

So if you wagered $5 for the ante and $10 for the call bet and had Two Pairs that beat the dealer’s hand, you get $30 back. $15 total wager and a 2 to 1 payout (double) = $30.

PROGRESSIVE JACKPOTS

A big draw for many to Caribbean Stud poker is the progressive jackpots. The jackpots grow as more and more players contribute to it (and usually don’t win). If you win, you get a portion of the pot as outlined in the payout schedule below.

If you want to play, put a dollar chip in the slot right in front of your seat. Just before the dealer deals everyone’s cards, the chip drops into the pot and a red light turns on next to the players who are playing for the jackpot.