"Seven Card Stud Hi Lo: A Stud Poker Game"Seven card stud hi lo is played with 2-8 players at a table. It can be played with nine or ten players, it's easier to play with a maximum of eight players. This is a split pot stud poker game. The hi hand wins half of the pot, while the lo hand wins the other half. There can be ties for the lo and hi. Say one player has K-K-K-Q-Q for hi and two players have A-2-3-4-5 for the lo. The hi hand gets 50% of the pot while the other two players get 25% of the pot each. The deal starts when... the dealer has shuffled and all players have anted. The dealer deals clockwise. Each player gets three cards, one at a time. The first two are face down, the third one face up. The deal always starts with the first person to the left of the dealer. The player with the lowest up card brings in the betting for an amount determined BEFORE the game starts. Action continues clockwise, until all players have acted on their first three cards. The dealer then burns a card and deals a fourth card face up to all active players. The next two cards are dealt face up and the seventh face down, with a betting round after each card. If on seventh street there are not enough cards to deal to each player, the dealer will put one card face up in the middle of
the table, and the remaining players will use that card as their seventh card. Recap of seven card stud hi lo. Each player starts with three cards. First two face down third one face up. First round of betting. Dealer burns card, deals each remaining player a fourth up card. Second round of betting. Dealer burns 2nd card, deals each remaining player a fifth up card. Third round of betting, betting limits double! Dealer burns 3rd card, deals each remaining player a sixth up card. Fouth round of betting. Dealer burns 4th card, deals remaining players a seventh card face down. Fifth and last betting round. When action is complete players turn their cards up and the dealer determines a winner. If there is a low the pot gets split in half. Where can you play this game? Just about EVERY online poker site offers this game. Betting limits online range from $0.02-0.04 to $100-200 USD and higher. Seven card stud hi lo is not usually played in poker rooms, on it's own. It's more commonly found in mixed poker games, like H.O.R.S.E and eight game. The best place to play is online. You can focus on the game by itself. Which helps you make an overall winning strategy. Where as in mixed games, you'll play maybe 10 hands of seven stud hi lo in an hour. That makes it tough to get familiar enough with the game to win at it. Since this is a split pot game, learning some stud high low strategies will help you out even more! Good luck! |
