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Stud Poker
PLAYERS. Seven, eight or nine make the best game. Stud Poker is a better game for two, three or four players than is Draw Poker, for there is more action in betting.
DEALING. The dealer gives one card face down to each player in rotation; then one card face up to each player.
A players face-down card is his hole card and is not shown until the showdown.
After these cards have been dealt, the pack is temporarily laid aside and the deal is interrupted for a betting interval. When the bets in this betting interval have been equalized, the dealer gives another face-up card, in rotation, to each player who has not dropped. The deal is again interrupted for a betting interval. After this betting interval, a third faceup card is given to each player who has not dropped, and after another betting interval each such player receives a fourth face-up card, completing his hand of five cards. Now there is a final betting interval, after which each player who is in the showdown turns u his hole card and the highest hand takes the pot.
BETTING. There is no ante in Stud Poker, except by agreement.
In the first betting interval, the player with the highest card showing must make a bet; if two or more players tie for highest-showing card, the player nearest the dealers left (that is, the player who received his card first) bets first. In each subsequent betting interval, the highest poker combination showing designates the player with the first right to bet. After the first betting interval, it is not obligatory to bet. The first bettor may check, and any player thereafter may check if there has been no previous bet.
Dropping A player who drops must turn his face-up cards down, and should not expose his hole card. (He is said to fokL)
DEALERS OBLIGATIONS. The dealer is expected to designate the player who must bet trst in each betting interval, as by pointing to the proper player and saying First queen bets.The dealer is also expected to call attention to combinations of three showing cards which make it possible that the holder will eventually have a straight or a flush; thus, if all three of a players showing cards are hearts, the dealer should announce Possible flush.
BarriNG LuvnT. It is customary in Stud Poker to have one limit during the first three betting intervals, and a higher limit for the final betting interval and also for any earlier betting interval in which any player has an open pair.
IRREGULARITIES. Only irregularities peculiar to Stud Poker are dealt with here. Other irregularities and the remedies and penalties for them will be found on pages 5-6.
MisdeaL No misdeal may be called after all hole cards and at least one face-up card have been dealt. When there is a misdeal, the same dealer deals again.
Card Improperly ExposecL If dealer deals any players first card face up, he must deal that players second card face down to serve as his hole card. If dealer deals both of a players first two cards face up, that player may stay in and dealer must deal his third card face down. There is no penalty on the dealer if he improperly deals any one of the first three cards face up to a player; but if, having dealt the first three cards face up to a player, dealer also gives that player his fourth card face up, such player may withdraw from the pot all the chips he has placed in it and drop out; or that player may stay in and dealer must give him his fifth card face down.
If dealer has given a player all five of his cards face up, that player may either stay in or may drop out and withdraw from the pot all the chips he has placed therein, and dealer must replace them.
Card Faced in Pack or Prematurely Dealt. Any card dealt by the dealer before the close of a betting interval, or found faced in the pack, is dead and must be discarded. The deal is continued, each player receiving the card he would have received in regular rotation if no such card had been prematurely exposed or found faced; and when all cards in regular rotation have been dealt, players who failed to receive cards on that round are served in rotation.
A player who would have received an exposed card may demand a shuffle and cut of the remaining cards before a replacement card has been dealt to him.
Impossible Call If a player calls a bet in the last betting interval, though it is impossible for any hole card to give him a hand that would beat the four cards of the hand showing against him, and if attention is called to this before the pot is gathered in, the player who so called may withdraw the number of chips with which he called the bet, unless at the time he called there was a player to his left who had not dropped.
SEVEN-CARD STUD
(Seven-Toed Pete, Down-the-River)
Each player receives three cards before the first betting intervaltwo cards face down, dealt one at a time, then one card dealt face up. There is then a betting interval. There are then three more rounds of cards dealt face up, one at a time, with a betting interval after each. Finally, one more card is dealt face down to each player who has not dropped, after which there is a final betting interval and a showdown in which each player turns up his three face-down cards and selects five cards as his poker hand.
If a card supposed to be dealt face down is instead dealt face up by dealer, and if due correction is not made through the sixth and seventh cards, the rules applying respectively to the fourth and fifth cards in five-card Stud Poker (page 14) are used; but if dealer gives a player his seventh card face up, having dealt the first six cards properly, that player has no recourse.
In other respects the rules of Stud Poker apply.
SIX-CARD STUD, EIGHT-CARD STUD
In Six-card Stud, the first card is dealt face down, the next four cards each face up, and the last card face down; there is a betting interval after each round of dealing from the second card on.
In Eight-card Stud Poker, the first two cards are dealt face down, the next four cards face up, and the last two cards face down, with a betting interval after each round of dealing from the third on.
In each case, a player chooses any five of his cards to be his poker hand in the showdown.
