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People are odd critters. We don’t like the status quo, even when it is a completely pleasant and agreeable status quo. It seems to be built into our DNA that we always try to make things better. In the case of the game, 5 Card Stud, we just couldn’t just leave it alone; we had to add variations. Well now that I have gotten that off my chest, a popular variation on the game of Five Card Stud is a game called Take it or Leave it. This game was probably invented and named after somebody had a particularly irritating row with their wife.

Same old poker buddies, same old snacks, same lame jokes, and the same predictable game. If this sounds something like your home game routine then a change might be in order. Trying a different poker variation might be just what you need to approach your game with a fresh outlook. One such game to try would be Billabong or its close counterpart Shanghai.

If you are a regular casino poker player and you have not yet tried Caribbean Stud - here are the bare basics you'll need to know. This casino variety is played against "the house" - not the other players. The rules mimic Five-Card Stud. With no bluffing in this variety - some have trouble viewing it as any real extraction of true poker but it is regular casino fare you might wish to learn.

We can't think of a Five-Card Stud player say, after being dealt a pair of Aces in the initial deal, "Lord help me, I just didn't want to start with a pair of Aces".

Are you the sort of person who rummages through your relatives personal belongings before Christmas for the purposes of finding out what they got you? Does it cause you to ruin a perfectly good pair or pants when somebody leaps out from behind the baday and yells boo?