7 Card Stud

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Seven Card Stud is a classic poker game which can take a lifetime to master. In Seven Card Stud, players are individually dealt seven cards throughout the course of the hand. Only the best five-card poker hand possible for each player is used to determine the winner.

Unlike Texas Holdem and Omaha, Seven Card Stud is played with a Limit betting structure meaning the bets are in fixed increments. Stud demands strategy and skill and it takes a lot of play to develop the winner's edge.

Ante

• Before a game of Seven Card Stud begins all of the players ante a small amount.
• Starting to their left the dealer deals each player two cards down and one card face-up.
• The player with the lowest exposed card is the ‘bring-in’ and is forced to start the action.
• Hey must make either another small bet (the exact size of the bring-in) or a full bet of the lower betting increment.
• Action continues clockwise around the table until betting is complete for the round.

Fourth Street

• Each player now receives another exposed card
• The first player to act is the one whose exposed cards have the highest poker value.
• This player may either check or bet the lower structured betting amount.
• The action moves from that player clockwise around the table one player at a time. Each player has the option to, check, call, bet/raise or fold.
• Once every player has acted and every player that has not folded has put the same amount of money into the pot the betting round ends.

Fifth Street

• The dealer deals every remaining player another card face up
• The betting round starts the same way fourth street started. The player with the best show cards bets first.
• Players bet using the big betting limit.
• Other than the betting amount this betting round is identical to fourth street.

Sixth Street

• Sixth street is identical to fifth street.
• Every player is dealt one card face up.
• The highest valued show cards bets first.
• Sixth street betting uses the big betting limit.

Seventh Street / The River

• Each player now receives a seventh and final card, which is dealt face-down
• The player with the highest-ranked show cards in the previous betting round is the first to act in this betting round as well.
• The final betting round uses the big betting limit.

Showdown

• Now the players still in the hand enter into the showdown.
• Here each player makes the best five card hand possible out of their own seven cards.
• If the players have identical poker hands, the pot will be equally divided between the players with the best hands.