Five card stud: the much maligned, under represented, misjudged game that is only ever represented as a stepping stone to bigger and better poker. Sure, five card draw can teach you the basics that you need to excel at other games. Sure, five card stud can even spark your love of poker in the first place. Sure, it can even be downright enjoyable to play. However, people continue to speak ill of this classic game.

I strongly urge you to go against the grain in this respect. Five card draw can be an absolutely fascinating game if you take it as a game that can stand on its own virtues. If you persist in the backward notion of thinking of five card draw as a stepping stone game, you will miss out on a very intriguing classic poker game. Five card draw has a lot of virtues, such as the fact that it makes you decided what cards are worth keeping in a hand and what cards you can part with. It makes you prioritize. It makes you think. At the end of the game, five card draw is just as fascinating as any other game you will find on the casino floor.

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