The honest comparison of one’s own hand based on the door and open cards is quite a need when one does play stud poker of any betting limit. One would feel a million times thankful if they have done honest comparison to eventually figure out if their hand is already dead or does still have some hope to be played on. Comparison of the open cards and the door cards against the open cards of other players at the table to see if the hand is worth any further draw is an important approach to play stud poker and anyone that does not compare has more than average chances to be playing dead hands.

Each round to play stud poker is made up of many number of betting rounds with every street cards; the number of betting rounds is dependent upon the number of streets and the number of calls and raises that comes in each betting round after every street cards. In Seven Card Stud there are five betting rounds and in Five Card stud Draw there are just two betting rounds.