Karayip stud poker

Player makes an ante wager plus an optional $1 progressive side bet
Each player and the dealer get five cards each. All cards are dealt face down, except one dealer card is exposed. The player may examine his own cards but sharing of information is not allowed.
Player must fold or raise.
If player folds he forfeits his cards, ante bet, and side bet (if made)
If player raises then he must make a raise wager exactly equal to twice the ante
The dealer will turn over his other four cards
The dealer must have an ace and a king or higher to qualify. In other words, the lowest qualifying hand would be ace, king, 4, 3, 2 and the highest non-qualifying hand would be ace, queen, jack, 10, 9. If the dealer does not qualify the player will win even money on his ante wager and the raise will push.
If the dealer qualifies and beats the player, both ante and raise will lose.
If the dealer qualifies and loses to the player, then the ante will pay even money and the raise according to the posted pay table. The U.S. pay table is shown below.
If the player and dealer tie, both ante and raise will push.
The progressive side bet will be entirely based on the poker value of the player’s hand. Various pay tables are available.
U.S. Raise Pay Table
EL ÖDEMELERİ
Royal flush 100 to 1
50'ten 1'e düz bir şekilde yıkayın
Dört tür 20 - 1
Tam ev 7'ten 1'a
5’i 1’e yıkayın
Düz 4 - 1
Bir tür 3 - 1
İki çift 2 ila 1
Diğer tüm 1 - 1
ev Kenar
The following table shows all the possible outcomes, assuming the U.S. pay table is used and the player follows optimal strategy.
U.S. Rules Return TableEXPAND
EVENT PAYS UNITS WON COMBINATIONS PROBABILITY RETURN
Player wins with royal flush 100 to 1 201 16759740 0.000001 0.000169
Player wins with straight flush 50 to 1 101 156929720 0.000008 0.000795
Player wins with four of a kind 20 to 1 41 2832435800 0.000142 0.005826
Player wins with full house 7 to 1 15 16624475280 0.000834 0.01251
Player wins with flush 5 to 1 11 21856990280 0.001097 0.012062
Player wins with straight 4 to 1 9 43805516100 0.002198 0.019779
Player wins with three of a kind 3 to 1 7 234242908320 0.011751 0.08226
Player wins with two pair 2 to 1 5 488012139360 0.024482 0.122412
Player wins with pair or less 1 to 1 3 2343248003808 0.117555 0.352665
Dealer doesn’t qualify 1 4532514033720 0.227385 0.227385
Push 0 321623100 0.000016 0
Fold -1 9523005974460 0.477745 -0.477745
Dealer wins -3 2726592727512 0.136786 -0.410359
Total 19933230517200 1 -0.052243
The lower right cell in the above table shows a house edge of 5.224%. However, I think this makes Caribbean Stud look like a worse bet than it really is. The house edge is traditionally defined as the expected loss to the original wager. In Caribbean Stud Poker the optimal strategy player will raise 52.23% of the time, for an average total wager of 2.045 units. For comparing one game against another I prefer to use the element of risk, which is the expected loss to the average wager, which in this case would be 5.224%/2.045 = 2.555%.
Stratejileri
Optimal strategy in Caribbean Stud is very complicated. The number of people who know it perfectly is probably zero. However, we can make two generalizations that cover most hands.
Always raise with a pair or higher.
Always fold with less than the dealer’s qualifying hand (ace/king)
It is the ace/king hands that are tricky. In general it helps if the three singletons are high or the dealer’s up card is jack or less and matches one of the player’s cards (making is less likely the dealer will form a pair). I personally developed the following strategy, which results in a house edge of 5.225%, just 0.001% less than optimal. If that isn’t enough for you I do have the Caribbean Stud optimal strategy.
The Wizard’s Caribbean Stud Poker Strategy
Always raise with a pair or higher, fold with less than ace/king, and raise on ace/king if any of the following three rules apply.
Raise if the dealer’s card is a 2 through queen and matches one of yours.
Raise if the dealer’s card is an ace or king and you have a queen or jack in your hand.
Raise if the dealer’s rank does not match any of yours and you have a queen in your hand and the dealer’s card is less than your fourth highest card.
Following are details on various strategies. The “total loss” is the loss over all possible 19,933,230,517,200 combinations of hands, the house edge, and the element of risk.