Mississippi Stud Poker Rules

1. Mississippi Stud Poker Rules
2. Mississippi Stud Poker Rules For Beginners

How to Play Mississippi Stud Poker

By Henry Tamburin

Like all stud poker variations, Mississippi stud deals players a mix of facedown and face-up cards throughout multiple betting rounds. It is a non-positional game, meaning that the player who bets first on each round can change from round to round. Mississippi stud is, unsurprisingly, most commonly played in Mississippi casinos. Mississippi Stud Strategy The best way to learn Mississippi Stud basic strategy is to assign a point value to all cards. Faces cards and aces are worth two points. Cards between 6 and 10 are worth one point. Mississippi Stud is a table game played like a shortened version of Texas hold'em. Each player makes an ante bet and is dealt two cards, face down. These cards are kept secret from other players. After looking at their cards, players may fold and wait for the next hand to be dealt, or they can make a wager in the first circle, marked '3rd Street.' In Mississippi Stud Poker you compete against a paytable – not against the dealer and you win if your hand is a pair of Jacks or better. Now we’ve added an optional Three Card Bonus side bet based only on the three community cards! Getting Started. Make an ante bet to receive your first two cards.

Mississippi Stud® is a five-card poker game that lets you bet up to 10 units on a single hand. In Mississippi Stud®, the Player competes against a paytable, not against the Dealer, and you win if your hand is a pair of Jacks or better (pairs of 6s-10s push). The top payout is 500 to 1 for a Royal Flush and it pays on all bets! GETTING STARTED.

Mississippi Stud Poker is a popular table game, especially in casinos in the South. The rules of the game are simple, which is one reason for its popularity. However, there is an element of skill in deciding whether to raise or fold your hand.

The game begins with all players making an Ante wager. The dealer will give each player two cards face down and then place three community cards face down on the layout. Each player will make a five card poker hand consisting of his or her two cards and the three community cards. Thus, you are not playing against other players; you are just trying to make one of the poker hands listed in the payoff table for the game (see pay table below).
After the Ante wager is made and the cards are dealt, each player looks at his or her two cards and then determines whether to fold or make a “Third Street” wager. The latter can be 1x, 2x, or 3x the amount of your Ante wager. If you decide to fold, you lose your Ante wager. If you decide to stay in the game, you make a wager (either 1x, 2x, or 3x your Ante wager) by placing the appropriate amount of chips in the Third Street betting spot. After all the players have decided to fold or stay in the game, the dealer will turn over the first community card.

The above process is repeated again for the Fourth Street and then the Fifth Street (and last) community card (i.e., you can fold at any time and forfeit the wagers you made or bet 1x, 2x, or 3xs your Ante wager prior to the dealer revealing the fourth and then fifth community cards).

After all the community cards are revealed, a player will receive a payout based on his or her five-card poker hand (consisting of the initial two player cards and the three community cards) according to the following pay table. (Note: You need at least a pair of 6s or higher poker hand to receive a payout with Mississippi Stud Poker.)

Mississippi Stud Poker Rules

Mississippi Stud Poker Pay Table

There is an optimum playing strategy for Mississippi Stud Poker based on a mathematical analysis of the game. You’ll find this optimum strategy on the Mississippi Stud page at www.wizardofoods.com, or in the set of poker-based strategy cards by James Grosjean. (For more about these excellent strategy cards, visit my web store at www.smartgaming.com).

Here are some strategy tips to keep in mind:

1. You should never bet 2x the Ante. Either wager 1x or 3xs depending on the strength or weakness of your hand.
2. Once you have a pair of 6s or better, always bet 3x the Ante on all remaining bets.
3. Follow the playing strategy in either of the two references above for all hands. The Grosjean strategy cards contain a small and slightly larger strategy card for Mississippi Stud that you can take with you when you play. (That way, you’ll always be making the correct play.)
4. The playing strategy is simple for Third Street but becomes more complex for Fourth and Fifth Streets.
5. You can practice playing Mississippi Stud Poker on your home PC by going to this site http://imadegen.com/mississippi_stud/index.html. (This simulator can also alert you if you make a playing strategy mistake.)

Mississippi Stud Poker Rules For Beginners

Even learning the above optimum playing strategy for the game, the house edge is still
steep: 4.9%, meaning in the long run you can expect to lose about $15 per hour betting $10 on the Ante. (If you play by the seat of your pants, you can expect to lose a lot more money.)