Winning 7-Card Stud: Transforming Home Game Chumps Into Casino Killers

by Ashley Adams

Book Overview

The most popular poker game in America is 7-Card Stud, but the simple fact is that 90 percent of those who play it lose! The difference between being a loser and a winner boils down to just one thing -- knowledge. Whether you're a sometime player looking for an edge at a Friday night get-together or you seriously want to win at poker in a casino, the insider information in this step-by-step guide can help you learn what you need to know to beat your...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818406356
• ISBN13: 9780818406355
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One Stop 7 Card Stud Education

This book is fantastic. I went from having casual knowledge of stud poker to being extremely confident at the tables. I had read a number of Ashley Adams articles and he is not your average writer. He has an extraordinary ability to recognize the abilities of the reader and not give him or her too much to handle. After reading the first 50 pages, I was quite disappointed at the starting hand requirements and put the book down. I started playing and had a winning session of 7 card stud. I had thought playing tight and waiting for good starting hands was boring, but tight is right. And winning is definitely not boring. I immediately finished the book and absorbed the advanced material later in the book and I am astonished at how great this book has helped me. While the Harrington on Hold'em books are the best ever written for NL tournament poker, this book is the best you can get for your library in 7 card stud. You might eventually advance beyond the concepts of this book and need a higher level book, but I don't think the average casual player with be sitting at stakes beyond $3/6 or $5/10. 5 Stars, I highly recommend this book to everyone. Everything you need to know in one book to become a winner. You will appreciate the work Ashley Adams put into this book to help players understand the complexities of 7 card stud. He is truly one of the best at teaching poker that I have ever read.

Winning 7-Card Stud - A Winner in it's own right!

After the beginner has read 7 CARD STUD by Roy West he is ready for WINNING 7-CARD STUD which is the next logical step. It's well organized and in-depth in it's practical approach to introducing the novice to the finer points of 7 Stud. While Texas Hold'em is exciting and getting all the attention these days, 7 Card Stud is the thinking man's form of poker and this book will help you play it well.

THE BEST 7 STUD BOOK IN PRINT

I have read this book several times and if you are a poker player or aspire to be one it will pay for itself rather quickly if you follow the advice contained in it. Ashley takes you from the basement home games to the casino environment arming you with everything you need to know before even sitting down. There are many books on holdem but very few on 7 stud written in recent times. Adams presents the reader with and entertaining and informative approach to seven card stud. I have read the few books on 7 stud and can tell you this one is the best. It gives you a gameplan to become a winner. Great for beginners or advanced players. Even Holdem players would find it a useful tool for picking up a new game.

A Wonderful Introduction

If you're looking to learn the basics of 7-Card Stud, I can't imagine you'll find a better book (or a better value) than this one. Unlike most poker books, it's actually a pretty entertaining read and all the material is well-presented and organized. I was already a profitable low-limit online Stud player before reading this book, but this book still helped my game quite a bit. There's some good advice in here regarding how to play in live casino games (especially if you're a newbie), game selection, identifying and playing against different types of players, etc. As one of the reviews below mentions, this is a book for beginning and intermediate-level players and the advice is really only applicable for lower-limit games. You may also find that some of the advice on third street play in particular isn't really applicable to certain types of low-limit online games due to their betting structure. But these are just minor nitpicks. Overall, this is an excellent book and a wonderful introduction to the game. If you're a new player, start with this book!

A Well-Written Poker Book

It is difficult to write "how-to" texts well. There are many non-literate poker books out there. They have good information but it is hard to find the good stuff hidden among the complex sentences and fractured paragraphs. Unlike the many, Ashley Adams' Winning 7-Card Stud is both informative and well-written. It begins where every good book should begin, at the beginning. It moves its readers from the basics of card-room seven-card stud through intermediate playing levels and includes some advanced tools, like reading other player's hands and poker psychology.This book should be read as author says. Read it first from cover-to-cover then study it one chapter at a time. There are three main sections: Ch. 1 - Review of card-room basics Ch. 2 - Low limit beginner's tactics Ch. 3-6 - Intermediate techniquesChapter 1 contains all the stuff we already know about B & M card-rooms. It also contains all the stuff we have forgotten about B & M card-rooms. It is worth re-reading and would probably help many of us if we read it once a year.Chapter 2 should be re-read carefully; especially by folks who play other kinds of poker and want to add seven-card stud to their playing list. In addition to tight fundamentals, it includes an excellent description of the tactical playing differences between low structured limit ($3/$5) and low spread limit ($1--$5) games.The rest of the book does a good job of presenting and reinforcing some of the more advanced techniques like slow-playing and check-raising. I especially like the way Adams presents his "odds" information. These chapters should be re-read separately and carefully. There is a lot of good information in them and it will take most of us some time absorb all of it. Like the earlier material, there are nuances discussed in the last four chapters that can benefit even sophisticated players.There are some proof-reading mistakes (for example, the text on pages 21-22 does not match the diagram on page 21) but I could not find any technical poker errors.I look forward to Ashley Adams' next offering. I hope he will share his thoughts about on-line seven-card stud with us then.Read Winning 7-Card Stud once for fun, and then read it again and again for information.