Tue, 04/12/2011 – 01:39 – PokerPages Staff

Beginner poker players will find 7 Card Stud Poker easy to learn.  As the name indicates, it is played with seven cards and a standard deck of 52 cards.  Once you catch on to the intricacies of poker bets, and the dealing process, the game becomes second nature.  Two to seven players can play at one time.

To begin with, two cards are dealt to each player face down.  The next card is dealt face up and the first betting round begins.  Poker betting begins with the lowest card showing, and continues around the table until all players have had a chance to bet.  

The next card is dealt face up.  This time the betting begins with the best poker hand showing.  Betting proceeds until all have had a chance to bet.  This is referred to as Fourth Street. 

The next card is also a face up card and sparks another round of betting.  Again, betting begins with the best poker hand showing.  This is called Five Street. 

The next card is also dealt face up and begins another round of bets with the best poker hand showing starting the betting process.  This is Sixth Street. 

Now the last card is dealt face down, and a final betting round proceeds.  This is referred to as Seventh Street. 

At the end of this betting round, the players still in the game use their three facedown cards and their table cards to make the best poker hand possible. 

Unlike Omaha and Texas Hold’em where the face up cards are community property, the face up cards in stud belong to only the person they are dealt to.

Beginner poker players will find this a fun game and the concepts are quite easy to learn.  Catching on after a few practice hands, players can test their new skills online free at PokerStars.net and poker information and training is available at PokerSchoolOnline – the premier Internet resource for free poker education.