Seven Card Stud Poker is a kind of poker when the Texas Hold was not well known and popular, and only some of the pofessinals knew it. It is related with Texas Holdem – there are no joint cards, every player has got his own 7 cards, some of them are known to the players.

7 Card Stud

W 7 Card Stud there are 5 bidding rounds, there are only four in Texas Holdem and Omaha. In this game instead of small and big blind you use the word 'ante', which means entrance stake. The stake must be payed before the player gets his cards. The amount of the stake depends on the table limits, but usually it is the percentage of the lowest limit. There are no joint visible cards in the middle of the table in this game. All the players get two covered cards and one open one. Everyone can see this card.

The player with the lowest open card starts bidding by bring-in the compulsory stake.

The bidding goes clockwise, starts with the player on the left from the player who did the bring-in. Ever player has got three options, to fold, to call or to raise.

When all the players brought-in same stakes they will receive nex open card / fourth strit/. The bidding is started by the payer who has the best order of two open cards. It goes clockwise. If two players have the same pair then the player with the higher colour starts bidding. Then the player gets the fifth open card / fifth strit/ and the next round of bidding. After it is finished next card goes to the player and he starts the bidding / fifth strit/. Last card dealt to the player is the seventh card, it is unseen to other players and stays covered till the end of bidding. When the bidding is finished the last player shows his order of five cards out of seven. The winner is the person with the best order of five cards.

It is worth to remember that 7 Card Stud is a kind of poker where in some of the situations the colour is very important. The strongest one is spades, then hearts, diamonds and clubs.