Australia Poker Card Rules

Mistakes

1. Playing open end straight draws. In a limit game of draw poker, there is almost no justification for ever drawing to a country straight. A hand like K-9-8-7-6 is just about always unplayable.
2. Opening in an early position with two small pair. It doesn’t matter whether the game is jacks or better to open (the most common form of draw by a landslide) or guts, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re playing with or without the joker opening with tens and sixes with five or more players still to act is suicidal. You can’t call a raise, and therefore your hand is vulnerable. It’s much, much better to check and see if someone else opens. Then call, raise or pass when the action gets back around to you.
3. Not opening with casino aces. Always open with aces unless there’s a clear cut reason for checking.
4. Keeping an ace kicker against a two card draw. If your opponent has three of a kind, you certainly want to draw three cards to a pair of kings, giving yourself a better shot at beating his trips. If he, too, is holding an ace kicker, your chances of catching an ace are diminished and you definitely ought to draw three.
5. Calling an opener in a jacks or better game with kings. Unless you now your opponent has less than aces, you MUST pass.
6. Calling a pat hand with three of a kind. Silly as it seems, a great many players have a policy of never laying down trips. It’s a mistake of gigantic financial proportions.

Rules

1. Unless there are two active players in front of you, never play a four flush.
2. Never draw to an open end straight.
3. Don’t open early with any two pair smaller than aces up.
4. Always open with a pair of aces.
5. Keep a kicker only when there’s an obvious reason for doing so. When in doubt, draw three to a pair, two to three of a kind.
6. Never call an opener in a jacks or better game with less than aces.
7. Be prepared to usually throw away three of a kind against a pat hand.

Five Card Stud Formula

Five stud is the simplest popular form of poker in countries like US, Australia and UK, etc. Even so, in the movie The Cincinnati Kid, Steve McQueen (the Kid) was challenging for the championship of the world against Edward G. Robinson (the Man). After four cards the Kid had F. aces-up and the very best the man could have been a pair of queens. Also, the Man could have been playing for a straight-flush. Instead of tapping the Man off in this situation, or at least betting enough so that it would not be profitable for him to call, the Kid let the reigning champ off for a few thousand dollars, not a large amount when weighed against the size of the pot. Almost from the first time he held a cue stick, Baldwin was confident and accurate. The balls just started falling in the pockets. At first he’d line up every shot, the way he’d been instructed. You take the cue stick in your right hand and point it toward the pocket. Visualize the point where the line from the pocket crosses the nearest side of the target ball. Draw another line from that spot to the cue ball, and you shoot straight along that second line.