Stud Poker Sequence: Fourth Card Strategy

Video Transcript

"We're playing Sequence, and we've gotten through the first up card, but here's the question. What do you do, if you've got a wild card, after 4th Street? How should you play? Let's look at that. You've got an eight and a Queen, coming out. There's a five, and a Jack, and at this time, deuces are wild, because this deuce came out on 3rd Street. That's how I stacked it before we played this hand, and you can look at your cards, of course, so you can look at your pocket cards, so be sure you know that. I'm looking, and I have a pair of Queens showing, but because of my hold cards, I actually have a pair of Aces. I have the option to bet, because I have the highest up hand, but let's be clear about something. Before you bet, think about this. There are four people in the hand. We've dealt two rounds of up cards. That means two rounds of up cards are coming, which means eight cards are coming. Looking at my pocket cards, I don't hold a three, so as far as I know, there are four threes still out there. With eight cards to come, four threes still in play, as far as I know. There is a better than fifty percent chance, that a three will come, as an up card. When I choose whether to bet or check, I need to consider that my opponent's probably know that statistically, a three will come, and I need not to over bet, because I'm probably not going to shake anybody at this time."