I'd look into buying Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players. I have it and can say there's lots of good info in it that will get you beating small-mid stakes in no time. Even Brian Hastings said it was a really good book after he won the WSOP 10k Stud event.

Besides that, Joe Tall has quite a few good videos on DC (From a Donk to a Stud, Nightmare on 7th street, and The Situation (which is for stud8)). Also I think Ceegee has some videos on Cardrunners and he's a bast when it comes to stud games.

Chip Reese's stud chapter in Super System contains a lot of old school words of wisdom as well.

7-Card Stud by Roy West covers about as much as any other 7 stud book and I have read SS1 (super/system 1, chip reese chapter), The Elements of Seven Card Stud by Konstantin Othmer, 2+2 book and I don't think they add anything to mention. You could pick any one of those and ignore the rest.

Anyway, most of stud one learns by playing/thinking about it, it playing rather differently compared to community games like limit holdem because one sees more, and none of those books help one there much actually because you need to read the boards and play it correctly on every street based on that and use a logic that you have to figure out yourself. The same with all stud games.

The 1st was SS1, then it was copied and some stats added by 2+2, while the Elements book is a solid book that also covers the material but is a bit different preflop and so maybe better to ignore for a start. The Roy book is a simple one and only if you are more nerdy, you might not like his style of writing and would then pick the 2+2 book (it is a copy really, and the Roy book also could be said to be yet another copy, but it is cheaper and sort of more light and fairer one).

The original being the SS1 (if you play draw poker then you might pick that one instead as the starting point) and you get more stats with the Elements book (new edition, almost non existent soon?), though the stats are not really important imo, or one knows what they about are and one has a solid early strategy anyway even without knowing all the stats, though supershort and heads up one needs to do some more thinking.

What you get with any of these books is a preflop strategy, some basic 4th and 5th street strategy (you won't get much with any of these books) and that's about it.

The progression of books I started out with was:

How to Beat Low-Limit 7-Card Stud Poker by Paul Kammen
Winning 7-Card Stud: Transforming Home Game Chumps into Casino Killers
Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players

I used any stud forums I could find, and posted lot's of hands (Post hands here and i'll be happy to help!)
I played micro stakes online. You can play online anywhere with U.S. friendly sites, or even play money.
I read any articles online (google search) I could find by authors I felt were competent at the game.
I've played stud in Foxwoods as well, the 1-3 game is a good spot to learn the ins and outs for relatively cheap.

Hope that helps!

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