7-Card Stud Poker

7 cards stud is a very fashionable poker online game, and it's played around the world, both at home and at poker online sites. Stud Poker and especially 7-Card stud poker is the most popular version of this game especially since the World Series of Poker made Texas Holdem a household name. Here, we describe the rules and regulations of playing the different 7-card stud poker games online. The principle of stud poker games is preserved in 7-cards stud poker: the winner is the poker online player with the strongest 5-card hand, or the only player left playing (when all the other players have folded).

Every poker online table sets its own payoff rates, betting systems and initial bets. A popular betting system used in 7-card stud games is the split limit, which means that all bets (raises and calls) are multiplications of a fixed amount.

The first bettor in the first betting round at poker online is the player with the lowest exposed card, and he can make an initial minimum bet (called "ante") instead of the lower limit for that poker online table. The ante's size is also set per table. The number of raises per round is limited to three, except for when there are only two poker online players left, and they can raise an unlimited amount of times.

A single 52-card deck is used to play 7-Card stud poker online. 3 cards are dealt to each player, 2 of them are personal cards ("hole cards" or "pocket cards"), and one card is exposed. After the initial deal a betting round starts. The poker online players must decide during the first round if they wish to stay in this poker game or fold.

The remaining poker online players then receive 3 more exposed cards, one at a time, with a betting round separating each deal. After the last betting round another hole card is dealt and the last betting round is done. If at least two poker online players stayed in this game, a showdown takes place, meaning that the players expose their hidden cards. Then the hands are compared and the highest 5-card poker hand wins the poker online pot. The hand can be formed from any of the 7 cards the player has. The left over cards have no influence what so ever on the strength of the poker online hand.