Help me beat my friends in this 5 card game!

Hello!

I´m currently living in central america in Nicaragua. I play NLHE and Omaha and stuff but here my friends play a stud type game with five face down cards which I don´t much like as you don´t get much information on your opponents hand except wheter they bet or not. Everyone puts an ante every hand and there´s 1 round of betting very simple. I can drop up to four of the five cards to redraw one time. That´s it.

I don´t like it to much compared to the fun of texas holdem and omaha but hey I´d still like to wipe them clean of their moolah. Any advice for this 5 card game game? We all usually make pairs, two pairs, trips, nothing more. I got a straight once. Redrawing for a straight or flush hardly makes sense I just keep my pairs and hope for better!

I think what you described is not stud but draw:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-card_draw

This should help you get started, I have almost no experience with that type of poker (we played it when I was a kid) so can't help more directly:
https://www.google.hr/search?q=5+ca...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Good idea is to try and deceive opponents if you have a strong hand. Example - you have a set and yet do not take 2 cards but only one to represent a draw.
Also, being in position = good.

LD1977 said:

Example - you have a set and yet do not take 2 cards but only one to represent a draw.

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I'd assume they had 2 pair. Drawing at straights and flushes is pretty terrible in a pot limit draw game.

Try to talk him into playing the lowball version of 5 card draw, 2-7 Triple Draw.

I cant remember the exact strategy but open 66+ in the SB. Button open with 88+, utg+1 with JJ+ and UTG with kk+. Thats the preflop strat.

Postflop, you have to see how many cards your opponent's draw. For example if he discards 2 cards he probably has trips already. Unless he's an inexperience player who keeps a pair and an ace. But most players with experience would keep the pair and draw for the trips.

If he discards 3 cards. He has a pair almost always. If you have a hand better bet always, to give him incorrect odds to draw.

If he discards 1 card, he's most prob drawing to straight or flushes or rarely he has two pairs trying for the fullhouse.

Anyways thats the basic strat.