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The first betting round starts with a forced bet, placed by the player having the lowest exposed card by suit. On next betting rounds, the betting action starts from the player having the highest up-card hand. In case of a tie, the betting action starts from the player, who got the cards first. |
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The player with the forced bet can open for a full bet. |
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Increasing the opening forced bet amount is cont considered as a Raise, but simply a bet completion. For example, in a $20-$30, the low card opens for $10. If the subsequent player increases the bet to $20 (completes the bet), up to three raises are then permitted while using a three-raise limit. |
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In fixed-limit games, when an open pair is shown on the “Fourth Street” or second exposed card, players can bet either the lower or the higher limit of betting structure. For example, in a $10-20 game, if you have a pair shown and are the high hand, you can bet either $10 or $20. If you bet $10, other players have the option to call $10, raise $10, or raise $20. If a $20 raise is made, then all other raises must be in increments of $20. If the player having the high hand with an open pair on fourth street checks, then following players have the same options that the high hand player had. |
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If you first or second hole card is by chance turned up by the dealer, then your third card will be dealt down. If both hole cards are exposed, you have a dead hand and got your bet back. |
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If the first card dealt faced-up would have been the low card, the betting action begins with the first hand to that player's left. That player has three options: fold, open for the forced bet or open for a full bet. (In 7 stud poker tournaments, if a hole card is exposed by chance, a misdeal occurs.) |
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If you are absent from the table when it’s your turn to act on your hand, your ante and your forced bet will be forfeited, if any. If you don’t return to the table in time to act, the hand is killed when the betting reaches your sitting position. |
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If any player folds when there is no bet, he will continue to get cards until the hand is killed due to a bet. |
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If you go all in for the bet while having the low card, the player next to you will act first and have three betting options: fold, open for the forced bet or open for a full bet. |
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If a wrong player is selection as low and that player ante, the betting action will be corrected to the real low card if the next player has not yet acted. The worng low card takes back the bet and the real low card need to bet. If the next player had acted after after the wrong low card bet, the betting action continues from there, and the real low card has no obligations. |
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If you pick up your exposed cards without calling while facing a bet, this is a fold and your hand will be declared dead. This act had no importance at the showdown as the betting is over; the hand is live until discarded. |
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Any card dealt off the table must play and it is considered as an exposed card. |
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In all the 7 card stud poker games, the low card, the high hand, all raises and all the pairs are declared by the dealer. However, the dealer doesn’t declare possible straights or flushes (excluding the special low-stakes games.) |
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If two cards are burned for a single round or the dealer fails to burn a card, the cards will be corrected, if possible in any way, to their correct positions. If this occur on a final down-card, and either a card is mixed with a player’s other hole cards or a player looks at the card, the player have to accept the card. |
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If any card is burned before the round has been completed, the card will be removed from the play. When the betting action for that round is completed, an extra card for each remaining active player is also removed from the play. Once that betting round is over, the dealer burns a card and the game continues. The eliminated cards are kept aside when the dealer runs out of cards. If the final hole card is dealt prematurely and has been looked at or mixed with a player’s other down cards, the player have to keep the card and on the sixth street betting, there will be not bet or raise as the player has received all the 7 cards. |
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If there are not enough cards remaining in the deck for each player, each card is dealt; excluding the last card which is intermingled with the burn cards or any card eliminated from the deck, as in the last rule. Now the dealer will intermingle and cut these cards while burning them again while delivering the remaining hole cards, using the last card, if required. If there are not enough cards for the remaining players without a card, the dealer doesn’t burn in order that all the remaining players can have a fresh card. If the dealer concludes that there the cards are not enough for all the remaining players, then the dealer declares to the table that a common card will be used. The dealer will burn a card and expose one card in the center of the table as a common card that plays in all’s hand. Now the player having a high hand using the common cards starts the betting action for the last round. |
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If the dealer exposes the last card to any player, the betting action will be started from the hand which is now high using the faced-up card. Following rules are applicable to the cards dealing:
(1) If there are more than two players, all remaining players will get their last card faced-down. A player, whose last card is faced-up, can declare all-in (before the betting action begins).
(2) If there are only two players remaining and the first player's final hole is dealt faced-up, the second player's final hole card will also be dealt faced-up, and the betting continues as usual. In case, if the first player’s final card is dealt down-faced and the opponent’s final card is dealt faced-up, then he player having the faced-up final card can declare all-in (before the betting action begins). |
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If there are more than seven cards in a hand, then the hand is dead. If a hand has less than seven cards at the showdown time, then again it is a dead hand, excluding any player not having a seventh card may have the hand ruled live. |
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A player calling a bet even if beaten by an opponent’s up cards is not eligible for a refund, as the player is getting the information about an opponent’s hand which can’t be offered for free.
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