Why Not Five Card Stud For TV?
Join Date: Jun 2009
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Because it's not easy to digest for the general public. Holdem is simpler to understand for the average person.
Join Date: Jan 2003
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It's perfectly simple to understand, there are just too many cinches to make it a good game.
Join Date: Jul 2007
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They’ve already had Five Card Stud on television. It was called Deadwood.
Join Date: May 2015
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Originally Posted by illdonk
They’ve already had Five Card Stud on television. It was called Deadwood.
Nah that was draw
Join Date: Sep 2004
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The structure of Texas Hold'Em is great for TV. One river card for all the marbles.
5CS giving one upcard to each player makes it more complex for the viewer.
Join Date: Jul 2012
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I'm old enough that Five Card Stud was still spread all the time when I first played. IMO it is one of the weakest of the games we call "Poker."
There are reasons why you never see it spread anymore. I can't imagine that showing it on television would do anything for the game except expose why we don't play it much.
If I were to pick a game that's fallen out of favor that I think should be revived, my vote would be on Five Card Draw, which except for 2-7 seems to be fading away.
Join Date: Sep 2005
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They put on stud games on TV and they're boring as ****. It's that simple. 5 is even worse than 7. I'm so old I played this online, mostly what beale said, there's just not much creative room or fun in the game.
Even the WSOP dropped this in the 70s so nice try at the troll. When guys who thought black and white TV was the best thing ever still think that kinda sucks we don't have to bother with it in 2018.
