Online poker has become globally celebrated recently, with televised events and celebrity poker game shows. The games popularity, though, stretches back in fact a bit farther than its TV scores. Over the years several variants on the earliest poker game have been created, including a few games that are not really poker anymore. Caribbean stud poker is one of the above-mentioned games. Despite the name, Caribbean stud poker is more closely affiliated with blackjack than old guard poker, in that the gamblers wager against the casino instead of the other players. The winning hands, are the traditional poker hands. There is little bluffing or different types of boondoggle. In Caribbean stud poker, you are expected to pay up just before the dealer announcing "No further wagers." At that point, both you and the dealer and of course all of the different gamblers are given five cards each. Once you have looked at your hand and the bank’s first card, you need to in turn make a call wager or give up. The call wager’s amount is on same level to your original wager, indicating that the risks will have doubled. Bowing out means that your bet goes directly to the house. After the wager is the showdown. If the casino does not have ace/king or greater, your wager is returned, plus an amount on par with the original wager. If the dealer does have ace/king or greater, you succeed if your hand beats the casino’s hand. The casino pays out chips equal to your bet and controlled expectations on your call wager. These odds are:
- Equal for a pair or high card
- 2-1 for two pairs
- three to one for three of a kind
- four to one for a straight
- five to one for a flush
- 7-1 for a full house
- twenty to one for a four of a kind
- 50-1 for a straight flush
- 100-1 for a royal flush