Seven Card Stud
Seven Card Stud - The Rules for Poker
At the beginning of a game of Seven Card Stud, each player puts in his or her ante into the pot before receiving their first three cards, two face-down (hole cards) and the third face-up (door card). The player with the lowest door card (if a tie, use suits in reverse bridge order - clubs, diamonds, hearts, then spades) begins betting by putting in a minimum of half the lower betting limit. With each round a new card is dealt face-up until the final round (the seventh card) is the “river†card and is dealt face-down. After this first round of betting, all subsequent rounds begin with the high hand beginning the betting action (if a tie, the player to the left of the dealer begins the betting).
The first two rounds of betting use the lower limit as the betting amount while the last three are at the higher limit. The maximum allowable number of bets per player during any particular betting round is four. This would consist of the opening bet and three raises. Once the betting limit for that round has been reached, players have only the option of calling or folding. Check-and-raise is allowed in all Seven Card Stud games (except on the first round, when any player except the forced bet, on his turn, must either bet or fold; the player with the forced bet does not have a choice of folding).
During the showdown, the player with the highest hand wins the pot. In the case of a tie, the pot is split between the winning players. In the event that there are not enough cards after the fourth betting round for the showdown, instead of dealing the river card to each player, the dealer will turn one card that will be used as a community card.
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