Seven-card Stud - Quick Play Overview

Quick Play Overview

Play proceeds as follows ("player" refers only to those who have not folded and are still in the game), with betting rounds in-between.

Betting is clockwise, the player with the lowest card showing starts.

Virtually all casinos deal:

• Two cards dealt face down to each player
• one card dealt face up (upcard) to each player (Third Street)
• upcard to each player (Fourth Street)
• upcard to each player (Fifth Street)
• upcard to each player (Sixth Street)
• downcard to each player (Seventh Street)
• showdown

An increasingly popular variant called "Mississippi Stud" removes the betting round between fourth and fifth streets, making only four betting rounds. This game also deals the final card face up. This makes the game more closely resemble Texas Hold'em by having the same betting structure and same number of down and up cards.

Another popular variant is "Roll your own," in which four rounds of two cards each are dealt down, and each player must "roll" one card to face up, followed by a round of betting. Except for the first round, the card rolled may or may not be from the round just dealt.