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Okay, we're almost through all of the dealing and betting and drawing in this hand of deuce
to seven triple draw. We've had the first two drawing rounds and there's one more to
come. Before that, there's a betting round. Let's say, for the sake of demonstration,
everybody checks. Our player in the small blind, who has a seven low, he has seven,
six, five, three, deuce. Is going to do what's called standing pat. This is, "stand pat."
He's drawing no more cards. Now that sends a clear signal to the table he has a hand.
In this case, he actually has a good, made hand for this game. The player that follows
will do something that is tough, and that is draw two cards on the last draw round.
You want to try to avoid this. In most cases, if you're drawing two cards on the last draw
round, you want to fold. Pairs his eight. He never got to a low hand. Moving to the
left, we have a king low. He's going to take one card. He's going to say, "I hope I catch
a nine low and that is somehow good." Well, he catches a jack low. And then, finally,
what does the guy that caught the straight do? Well, you don't want to take away the
eight because you end up with an open ended straight draw. An eight or a three would still
make a straight. And you don't want to take away the four because a nine or a four would
still make a straight. What you want to do is take away the card that made you the straight
in the first place and the card that has the longest odds for hitting another straight.
So, you could take away the six, or the seven, or the five. Well, I say take away the seven
because if you get a three of a two, you improve on your low. And we'll see what came in the
next segment.