How to Play Poker
Stud
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| Standard Game (5 cards) |
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| Stud poker is a great poker game. Learn the rules. |
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| Up to ten may play. |
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| Ante |
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| Usually a small compulsory bet
is made by all players. |
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| Opening card |
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| The player with the highest ranking
face-up card must open or drop. A wild card is considered higher than
an ace. If two players hold equal ranking cards, the player nearer
the dealers left opens. After the opener, each player drops, stays
in, bets, raises, or re-raises in the normal way until betting is
equalised. |
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| Continuing play |
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| In stud poker
further rounds of dealing one card face up to each player alternate
with betting intervals, until the end of the fourth interval (when
each of the players has one face-down and four face-up cards). On
these deals, the dealer leaves the deck resting on the table and takes
cards one at a time from the top. On the betting intervals, the player
with the right to open is the one with the highest ranking completed
hand in exposed cards - the dealer announces that player and also
announces exposed hands possible flushes and straights, and the last
deal. In stud poker the showdown, follows the fourth
betting interval ; all active players expose their hole cards.. |
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| Additional rules |
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- In stud poker If all the players check, the
betting interval ends and the play continues
- If a player drops out, he turns all his cards face down and
does not reveal his hole card.
- If on any betting interval only one active player is left,
he wins and play ends. He need not show his hole card.
- A "four flush" is often ruled a ranking had in stud
poker, i.e. four cards of the same suit plus one other.
At showdown (and in deciding the start of a betting interval)
it beats a pair but loses to two pairs).
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| Standard Game (variants) |
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| Six card stud |
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| This is like five-card stud
poker, except that after the fourth betting interval each
player receives a sixth card face down. This is followed by a fifth
(final) betting interval. At the stud poker showdown,
each active player chooses five cards from his six to form his final
hand. |
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| Seven card stud |
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| (or seven-toes Pete or down the
river). This stud poker game is for 2 to eight players.
The opening deal is of three cards: two hole cards, then one face
up. Betting intervals and rounds of dealing face up-up cards then
alternate as usual, until active players have seven cards (including
the two hole cards). In seven card stud poker after
a final betting interval, each active player chooses five cards from
his seven to form his showdown hand. |
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| Seven card stud: low hole card wild card |
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| As above, but each player's lower
ranking hole card is wild - as, for him is any other card of that
denomination. Sometimes players re allowed to choose either one of
their hole cards (and its denominations) as wild. |
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| Mexican stud |
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| This is like five-cards stud
poker except that all cards are dealt face down. After the
second and each subsequent dealing round, each player turns up any
one of his face-down cards, leaving one chosen card as hole card.
Sometimes a player's final hold card is rules wild, together with
any other cards of that denomination that he holds. |
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| Other five-card stud variants |
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- Last card down ; the last card is dealt face down, giving two
hole cards
- Last card optionally down: a player may turn up his hole card
before the last dealing round and receive his firth card face
down.
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| Low-hand stud |
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| The lowest hand at stud poker wins
the pool. The lowest exposed hand begins each betting interval. Other
rules are as for the form of stud being played. The lowest exposed
hand begins each betting interval. Other rules are as for the form
of stud being played. |
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