Stud picking up new players?

[MRBAA]

As a stud-first guy, I'm biased. But it does seem that online there keep being more and more games. Yesterday on Party, there were about 20 3-6 games and probably 40 1-2 games. Anyone else think stud is riding the coattails of the he boom?

[beta1607]

Yes - I began playing stud as a break from hold em and now I actually perfer to play stud online. I am sure there are other more new posters in this forum who are the same way.

[NPoling]

Yeah. I think its a logical extension of the growth of Hold 'em. With hold 'em growing wildly popular these days, its only logical that some of that will overlap into other games.

I myself first got interested in poker through hold 'em, and only later moved on to stud, omaha, and other games.

[Nick_Foxx]

there may be some truth to that in regards to on-line, but hold'em has basically killed off stud at all the cardrooms i've visited in the past couple years (chicago, reno, vegas and canterbury)

at the boats here in chicago, there is only one non-spread limit stud game, and that is a 10/20 game that runs on saturdays only at trump's... as far as i know, that's it

mike

[jayheaps]

good point nick. However, the 10-20 at trump isn't that tough of a game. Any of the regulars at 2+2 are definitely +EV in that game.

[Michael Emery]

When I first started playing on party approximately a year and a half ago there were very few stud games. There was no 20-40 and the 10-20 game in the day didnt even make it full handed. But the game that has really taken off on party is Omaha hi-low-split. Its remarkable how many upper limit tables of that go now. I guess all those bored hold'em players are starting to explore new horizons.

Mike Emery

[HajiShirazu]

I agree with this, especially at peak hours. Omaha 8 is on fire, and a lot of the new types don't seem to know much about how to play. I guess people like it because you can see more showdowns or have more draws or something.
I remember there wouldn't even be a full high-limit game going and maybe 2-4 games at each of the lower limits except .5/1 where there might be 8 or so. Now there are often 3 to 4 times as many tables throughout the low limits, and I noticed a lot of high-limit action with large pot sizes as well. The pot limit games, you'd think they'd dry up, but nope, they're getting bigger too. I don't know about the stud 8 action, it seems like more people might be playing it, but I never paid much attention to it until recently.
We can thank ESPN for putting non-holdem on TV, it probably had a lot to do with this.

[blackize]

I started playing stud as a break from holdem and took to it naturally. I immediately went out and read Chip Reese's section in Super System on it and found that I had been putting the basic tactics in play already and had a firm grasp of the game at the start. I noticed that the "advanced plays" were all plays that I had considered making but deemed they would have no effect on my oblivious opponents. That being said, stud is completely different from holdem and I think that attracts some Holdem players looking for something a little new. The best part is that they come in and try to play it like holdem and give me all their money!

[sfer]

Yes. And I think it helped tremendously that 2 WSOP Stud events were televised.

[BeerMoney]

SFER, are you playing more stud? I'd like to see you be regular poster here.