How to Play Mississippi Stud: A Free Comprehensive Guide

Strategies for Playing Mississippi Stud

Like Let-it-Ride, you must make three decisions on what you can risk. Before you can see the community cards, you will look at your cards and decide to raise or fold them. If you have any pair, you can increase your chance at a big and substantial payout by raising 3 times your ante. 

If you are holding a face card (meaning either of the kings, queens, or jacks), consider raising it by 1. If you have a likely push hand (two cards 6-10, no pair), raise 1 time. Fold all other types of hands.

After the first community card is revealed, raise it 3 times with any straight flush draw and any pair of sixes or better. Raise 1 time with any 3 suited cards, any small pair (i.e., below sixes), leastwise any two cards (a jack or better), any 3 cards (i.e. 6-10), any 3 consecutive cards, and, lastly, any two cards where the third card could make a flush. Fold all other types of cards.

After viewing the second community card, raise it 3 times with any hand that pays or pushes and any four-flush or consecutive four-straight (i.e., 4, 5, 6, 7). Raise all other hands 1 time or fold. 

The hands you can continue with are:

• Any four straight cards.

• Any small pair below sixes.

• Any two-face or ace cards.

• Any hand with at least five bets (i.e., 5 times your ante) and can make a push.

Remember that this is not a game where you can place a single bet (like blackjack). The main principle of this game is playing correctly on your first two cards because any mistake you make snowballs in the later stages. Avoid going on hunches and getting trapped, choosing to raise a hand unlikely to even turn into a push.