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Stud poker is a lot more complicated when compared to other poker variations, but it becomes much easier to play once you completely understand the game rules. On this page, we will explain all the game rules you will need to understand the game and cover the objective of the game, how each betting round will work, and how each hand will start.

In all Stud Poker games, every player will be dealt a hand where some cards will be dealt face up, and some cards will be dealt face down, along with a betting interval after every round of face-up cards that are dealt. Traditional 5 Card Stud, also referred to as ‘Open Poker‘, stretches back to the 19th century.

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During the 20th century, 7 Card Stud, where players can use any five of the seven cards to form a hand, managed to surpass 5 Card Stud in popularity, providing a satisfactory basis for most home poker variations that involves wild cards and other game enhancements.

There are several Stud poker variations available nowadays with the most popular including 5 Card Stud, 5 Card Stud High-Low, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud High-Low, 7 Card Stud with Wild Cards, 10 Card Regrets, Auction, Baseball, Follow the Queen, Mexican Stud, Mississippi Mud, Pass the Trash, Razz, Wall Street and Woolworth.

The Objective

Contents

• Game Basics
• Stud Poker Frequently Asked Questions

As with most variations of poker, the main objective of the game, in any form of Stud poker hand, is to win the pot containing all the chips contributed by players during the hand. The pot is won by the last player remaining when all other players have folded, or by a player with the highest hand value if two or more players remained after all betting rounds are over. The pot may also be shared between two or more poker players if their hand values are a tie.

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Game Basics

Stud poker is played with a standard deck containing 52 playing cards. Two or nine players can play the game of stud, however, if more than seven players participate, there needs to be certain rules in place when the deck runs out. Depending on the stud poker variation, each player will either receive up to five or seven cards if they remain in the pot until the end and therefore it’s possible to run out of playing cards. Unlike Texas Hold’em, Stud poker does not have any community cards. However, some of the cards that will be dealt to each player will be face up, allowing players to get a glimpse of what you might have.

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In addition, Stud poker is normally played with a betting limit structure as opposed to pot limit or no limit betting. In Stud poker, the hand rankings are the standard hand rankings you’ll find in five card poker. So, if you not familiar with poker hand rankings, we suggest educating yourself on each hand ranking and find out which hand is stronger than the next.

Starting Hand

At the start of each hand, all players participating in the hand must pay an ante. All forced bets will go into the pot and are normally around 10% or even 20% of the small bet. If you decide to play in a $10/$20 games, for instance, the ante will be between $1 or $2. Each player will then receive three playing cards (in 5 Card Stud, each player will receive two cards, one face up and one face down). One card will be dealt face up for everyone to see while the other two cards are dealt face down. The player exposing the lowest value card is then required to pay the bring-in, typically around 50% of the small blind. Should there be a tie between 2 or more players for the lowest exposed card value, suit rankings will then be used to determine which player pays the bring-in forced bet.

Betting Rounds

After the forced bring-in bet, a betting round will take place. The betting action will rotate around the table in a clockwise direction, allowing each player to make one of three betting decisions. They can either fold, discard their hand and play no further part in the pot, raise, increase the bet size, or call, matching the highest bet value at that point that, ensuring it meets the minimum of 1 small bet. Should all but one player fold, the remaining player will take the pot. However, if two or more players can call the highest bet, they will proceed to the next betting round, also known as “fourth street“.

Each of the remaining players will be dealt another card at the start of fourth street, face up. Another betting round will take place which will start with the player who has exposed the best hand value (only the cards that are face up) and follow the exact format as before. The only difference in fourth street is that a player will have the option to check. If a player checks, he stays in the hand without the need to make a bet. However, once a player makes a bet, the player that checked is required to match the bet before the hand can continue.

Once the fourth street betting action is completed, and there are still more than one player remaining, the hand will advance to the fifth street. At the start of fifth street, each remaining player will receive another card, face up. Then another betting round will take place, following the exact format as fourth street. Thereafter, another card is dealt to each remaining player in sixth street, also face up, followed by another round of betting. Seventh street is the final card, if you decide to play 7 Card Stud, to each remaining player. The seventh card will be dealt face down, and another betting round will begin that follows the exact format as the previous betting rounds. If more than one player remains, the hand will proceed to a showdown.

Showdown

The player who made the last bet or raise during the seventh street will be the first player to reveal their playing cards in a showdown. Thereafter, play will continue in a clockwise direction with every player around the table revealing their hands. Keep in mind that a player can choose not to reveal their hand if they are beaten. Players can use five of their seven cards, in 7 Card Stud, to form the best possible five card hand. Whoever displays the best hand ranking will win the pot.

Stud Poker Frequently Asked Questions

Stud Poker is neck and neck with Texas Hold’em when it comes to popularity. Thousands of players enjoy multiple poker variations of Stud online every single day, and just as many players entering large stud poker tournaments that are offered by online poker sites. You can also expect to find stud cash tables at land-based casinos that are usually occupied by big audiences who turn up to watch the action as well as poker tournaments televised around the world.

Definitely. There is a great supply of online stud tournaments running regularly at online poker sites. This allows online players to put their skills to the test against other players around the world.

This will obviously depend on the online poker site you are playing with and the skill level of the opponents you are playing against. More popular online poker sites will always draw more fish, so it’s best to join a very popular poker site to increase your chances of winning. Stud poker is also very different to Texas Hold’em and more difficult to initially get a grasp of. Therefore, you will need to play the game more in fun mode before heading out to play for real money.

With stud poker being just as popular as Texas Hold’em, players can expect to find the same range of stake levels, ranging from a mere $0.01 and increasing up to around $200. So, there’s always a table for every online poker player, regardless of their skill and bankroll size. If you are new to stud poker, we suggest you start at the micro tables and work yourself up to bigger tables when you more comfortable with the game.

Of course. Nearly all popular online poker sites will have a dedicated fun mode section where you can learn different variations of stud poker, how the betting rounds function, and the game rules without it costing you an arm and a leg to learn. Once you have a betting understanding of the game, you can head out to play for real money against other online poker players.

Definitely. Most online poker sites have optimized their poker software to run on almost every mobile and tablet device. They even offer mobile apps that can be downloaded directly onto your mobile device, allowing you to enjoy online poker while you are on the move.

Stud poker is any of a number of pokervariants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round (it is usually the player whose face-up cards make the best hand for the game being played). The cards dealt face down to each individual player are called hole cards, which gave rise to the common English expression ace in the hole for any hidden advantage.

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History[edit]

Stud poker variants using four cards were popular as of the American Revolutionary War. Five-card stud first appeared during the American Civil War when the game was much played among soldiers on both sides, and became very popular. Later, seven-card stud became more common, both in casinos and in home games.^[1] These two games form the basis of most modern stud poker variations.

Play[edit]

The number of betting rounds in a game influences how well the game plays with different betting structures. Games with four or fewer betting rounds, such as five-card stud and Mississippi stud, play well with any structure, and are especially well suited to no limit and pot limit play. Games with more betting rounds are more suited to fixed limit or spread limit. It is common (and recommended) for later betting rounds to have higher limits than earlier ones. For example, a '$5/$10 Seven-card Stud' game in a Nevada casino allows $5 bets for the first two rounds and $10 bets for subsequent rounds. Also common is to make the final round even higher: a '$5/$10/$20' game would allow $20 bets on the last round only. Another common rule is to allow the larger bet on the second round if there is an 'open pair' (that is, at least one player's upcards make a pair). Some casinos (typically in California) use the smaller limit on the first three rounds rather than just the first two.

It is a common convention in stud poker to name the betting rounds after the number of cards each player holds when that betting round begins. So the bet that occurs when each player has three cards is called 'third card' or 'third street', while the bet that occurs when each player has five cards is 'fifth street'. The final round, regardless of the number of betting rounds, is commonly called the 'river' or simply the 'end'.

Specific variants[edit]

As mentioned above, seven-card stud is probably the most common form of the game, with most other games being variants of that, although five-card stud is also a basic pattern upon which many variations are built.

Six-card stud[edit]

Six-card stud is usually played as identical to seven-card stud, except that the last face-up round is removed (thus it is two down, three up, one down). It can also be played as 1-4-1, where the first betting round occurs after only two cards are dealt (one down and one up). This latter form more closely resembles five-card stud with an extra downcard.

Razz[edit]

Razz is a variant where the lowest hand wins the pot instead of the highest. Versions differ in the rules for treating straights and flushes as high or low. London Lowball is a popular version that counts straights against the player.

High-low stud[edit]

High-low stud is played using high-low split betting, where the pot is split between the player with the highest hand and the player with the lowest hand. In the most common form, known as 'eight-or-better' or 'stud eight', an 8-high hand or lower is required to win low. If there is no qualifying low hand, high hand takes the entire pot.

Another form of high-low split stud is played under the same rules as stud eight, but there is no qualifier required for the low half of the pot. Often referred to as Q, it is much less common than stud eight, and is generally played at higher limits.

Mexican stud[edit]

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Various forms of roll your ownfive-card stud, often with a stripped deck and wild cards, are called Mexican stud, Mexican poker, or stud loco. One such variant played by the Casino San Pablo in northern California has these rules: 8s, 9s, and 10s are stripped from the deck, and a single joker is added (the deck therefore contains 41 cards). The 7-spot and the J become consecutive, so that 5-6-7-J-Q is a straight. A flush beats a full house (with fewer cards of each suit, they are harder to get). The joker plays as a bug if it is face up, and fully wild if it is face down. The game is played as five-card stud choose-before roll your own. It is usually played with a very high ante, and the high card on the first round pays the bring-in.

The game of Shifting sands is Mexican stud in which each player's hole card (and all others of that rank) are wild for that player only.

Caribbean stud[edit]

Caribbean Stud Poker is a casino game that has been developed using the poker hands and general rules of 5 card stud poker. The game combines poker elements and standard table game elements in that each player dealt into the hand is playing against the dealer. Originally invented by gambling author David Sklansky using the name Casino Holdem with some slight rule variations,^{[citation needed]} the game was first introduced at the Grand Holiday Casino and eventually all the remaining hotels in Aruba in the 1980s.

Miscellaneous[edit]

• Five-card stud played high-low split with an added twist round is called Option alley or five-card option.
• The game Scandinavian stud or Sökö is five-card stud with two new hand values added: Four-card flush and four-card straight. Hand ranking is therefore: High card, one pair, four-card straight, four-card flush, two pair and then on as usual. A four-card straightflush is not a hand in itself, it's merely counts as a four-card flush.
• The term English stud is used ambiguously to refer to several games, including six-card stud played 1-4-1 with a twist (also called six-card option), London lowball, and a seven-card stud game where both sixth street and seventh street are twist rounds.
• In the game of seven-card flip, each player is dealt four cards face down, and chooses two of them to turn up. All cards are turned up simultaneously after everyone has chosen. As this point, the game proceeds as if it were standard seven-card stud starting on fourth street.
• Kentrel, or '48', is a seven-card stud variation which starts with each player being dealt four downcards. Each player must then discard one, choose one of the remaining three to turn face up (leaving two down and one up as normal), and then proceed as with eight-or-better high-low stud.
• The game of Show Hand, which is not commonly played but made famous by Hong Kong gambling films, is a twist in 5 card stud. Players with the highest face up cards decide whether to check the round or raise; or, if the player with the highest face up card or hand checks, it will proceed to the next street. However, the last round of betting after the river is dealt is unlimited. In Show hand poker the last card is dealt face down. Players now choose from 1 of the 2 face down cards to reveal to other players. This variant is usually played with a set time-limit and bet limit to prevent players from taking advantage of checks and not betting to prolong the game.
• The game of Chicago is seven-card stud in which the high hand splits the pot with the player who has the highest-ranking spade 'in the hole' (among his downcards). There is also Little Chicago (also called Southside), in which the lowest ranking spade in the hole splits the pot; players who play Little Chicago call the high spade variant Big Chicago. This also known as Chicago high by night and Chicago low by night. In Chicago by night the Deuces and One-eyed jacks are usually called as wild cards.
• The Bitch is a variant on Chicago above, played with a combination of up and down cards, usually two down, four up, and one down. The twist is that the Queen of Spades is designated as the highest ranking Spade, followed by the Ace, King, Jack, and so on. Also, if the Queen of Spades is ever dealt as an upcard to any player, all players turn in their cards, re-ante, and replay the game. This can lead to quickly increasing pots, especially if the re-ante amount is increased on each iteration. The high hand splits the pot with the high spade.
• Several different games played only in low-stakes home games are called Baseball, and generally involve many wild cards (often 3s and 9s), paying the pot for wild cards, being dealt an extra upcard upon receiving a 4, and many other ad hoc rules (for example, the appearance of the queen of spades is called a 'rainout' and ends the hand, or that either red 7 dealt face-up is a rainout, but if one player has both red 7s in the hole, that outranks everything, even a 5 of a kind). These same rules can be applied to no peek, in which case the game is called 'night baseball'. See main article: Baseball Poker.
• Cowpie poker is played as seven-card stud until after the seventh-street bet. All remaining players then split their hands into a five-card hand and a two-card hand. The five-card hand must outrank the two-card hand, and the latter must contain at least one downcard. After the split there is one more betting round and showdown. Upon showdown, the highest five-card hand and the highest two-card hand split the pot. The name of the game is a pun on Pai Gow.
• Number Nine is a variant of seven-card stud in which 9s are wild, and any two number cards that add up to 9 may make one wild card, at the player's option. Aces count as 1 for wild card purposes. The player is not obliged to make any wild cards, and can play cards that could make 9s at face value or as wild cards, at his option. Cards used to make wild cards may not figure in the resulting hand twice. The player cannot add three or more cards. Sometimes, 9s themselves are not wild, and wild cards can be made only by addition.
• Dr Pepper is a stud variant where 10's, 2's, and 4's are wild (the name comes from one of the original Dr Pepper advertisements of the 1920s: 'Drink a Bite to Eat at 10, 2, and 4 o'clock').
• Draft (or 'socialist poker') is usually a variant of seven-card stud in which the second and subsequent upcard rounds are dealt this way: for each player remaining, one upcard is dealt to the center of the table (not to any specific player). The player with the worst showing hand gets to choose which of them he will take for his next upcard, then the player with the second-worst showing hand chooses his upcard from those left, and so on, until the player who previously had the best showing hand takes the remaining card. Then betting occurs as normal. In seven-card stud, this makes for three 'draft' rounds (the first three cards are dealt normally, as is the final downcard).
• Auction is a similar variation in which each upcard round (or possibly just those after the first) begins with an 'auction' phase. Instead of dealing each player one upcard, the first card is dealt to the center and all players bid on it; the player who bids the highest amount places that amount into the pot, and then has the right to either keep the auction card as his own upcard, or designate another player who is required to take it as his. After the first card is auctioned off and placed, the remaining players are dealt a random upcard as usual, and betting proceeds as usual. This variation is commonly played as high-low split, so it is common for a player to 'purchase' a high card to force it upon an opponent seeking low, for example.
• Telesina is a stud variant which is played with a stripped 'French' deck. The play follows most five card stud games except that after the fourth betting round a 6th community card called the vela card is placed in the center of the table. The vela card may be used by all players to improve their hand after which another round of betting occurs. The standard hand ranking applies with the slight difference in that a flush beats a full house because it is easier to get a full house than a flush. This is because instead of 13 cards per suit there are only 8 having the cards from 2-6 removed.

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