Seven Card Stud - rules

The rules of seven card stud are some more complicated than concerning Texas hold’em or Omaha. The game is fundamentally quite simple, but it can be little hard in the beginning until you have learn how the structure is working.

Dealing of the cards
In seven card stud or easily shortened 7 card stud should every player get two cards faced down and one card faced up, the so-called “door card”. Where after the remaining cards are dealt once a time and always preceded by a betting round. Before the hand is over every player should have been dealt seven cards and card number four, five and six is visible then the card number seven is faced down. No community cards are used. 

Ante
Before a new pot a ante should be made by every player. Ante is an amount of chips and the size of it is decided before the game starts. The size can vary, but are normally a few times smaller than a full bet.

Betting
After the first three cards have been dealt to every participant the first betting round will start. The player with the lowest door card must start by make the “bring-in-bet”. If several players should have the same lowest value is the colour deciding and the rank is from highest to the lowest: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs.

After the bring-in-bet can the rest of the players choose from fold, call or raise. After all players in the order from left to right have act another card will be dealt thereafter the next betting round begins. 

In the second betting round is it the player with the best hand that starts to act and this is the proceeding in the rest of the hand.

The betting
If the game is played with the limit 1/2 units are 1 unit the amount that can be bet or raised with in the two first rounds as 2 units will be the size of the bet in the last three.

A special case occurs when a player has a visible pair on the board after the fourth card has been dealt. In this occasion are the player allowed to also choose a bet with two units. Checking is like always an allowed alternative.

7 stud is thus often played as limit, but sometimes it’s played in a structure that is called spread-limit. In this case theirs is some extra amount that can be bet. 

Who win’s?
After the last card is dealt and the last eventual bets are made its showdown among the players that are still in the hand. The player that now has the best five card hand is winning the pot.