| This game features a joker, but it is not shuffled in with the deck. It is
placed in the center of the table and is shared by all hands where it is
fully wild. Seven-card stud is played, except that after each player has
been dealt two hole cards there is the first betting round, with the wild
joker representing the first face-up card in each hand. The player at the
dealer's left bets first. Three more face-up cards and one final face-down
card are dealt to each active player, with a betting round after each and
the highest hand winning the pot. Since everyone has a joker, powerful
hands become more common with a flush or full house winning most pots. |
| Also known as Shipwreck, this is one of the most popular forms of seven-card
stud. The lowest-ranking card of a player's three hole cards, and every
other card of the same rank in his hand, is wild. Since the first, second
and seventh cards are dealt face down, the most intriguing (and dangerous)
feature of this game is that your last card can dramatically change the
value of your hand if its rank is lower than your first two hole cards.
Play conservatively and look for a four-of-a-kind to be the surprise winner. |
| This member of the Baseball family is a variation of eight-card stud with all
fives wild. Three cards are dealt face down to each player and four cards
face up, with a betting interval after the each of the last four cards.
One last card is dealt face down followed by the final betting round. The
highest hand wins the pot, which with four wild cards is usually a full
house or better. |
| Named after the popular "five-and-dime" store, this member of the Baseball
family is seven-card stud with all fives and tens wild. When a five is
dealt face up, the player must either pay five times the betting round's
betting limit to the pot, or drop. When a ten is dealt face up, the player
must pay ten times the limit or drop out of the pot. With eight wild cards
in the deck, it usually takes a full house to win. |
| This is the same as Mexican Stud except that the first card a player rolls
over, and all other cards of the same rank, is wild in that player's hand.
The betting is the same as in five-card stud except that all cards are
dealt face down. After the first two cards are dealt, and then after each
subsequent card is dealt, every player picks a single hole card and turns
it face up. This option allows you to conceal or expose strategic cards at
each stage of the game, in an attempt to keep your opponents guessing.
Four-card straights and flushes are legal in this game, but a wild flush or
full house will usually win. |
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