Seven-Card Stud Poker

Seven-Cards Poker Stud, a fashionable and popular poker game, is played around the world at home and at casinos.
The winner of this poker variation is the player with the strongest five-card hand or the only player who hasn't folded. The 7-card poker stud table can accommodate up to 8 players, and a dealer from the poker casino also participates in a passive role. Betting rules:

Every poker table has their own payoff ratings, betting systems and initial bets.
A popular betting system is the split limit in which all bets (raises and calls) are multiplications of a fixed amount.
The first poker player to bet in the first betting round is the player with the lowest exposed card, and he can place an initial minimum bet (called "ante") instead of the lower limit for that table.
The ante's size is also a pre-set limit for each poker table. The number of raises per round is limited to three, except for when there are only two poker players left, and then they can raise an unlimited amount of times. To play 7 card stud poker, a single deck is used. 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 players must decide during the first round if they wish to stay or fold.
The remaining poker 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 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 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 hand.

1. 7 Stud Low Ball poker: Low only.

2.x 7 Stud High-low, Declare: High-Low Split, declare after the last betting round.

3.7 Stud High-low, Cards Talk: High-Low Split, Cards Talk, 8 or better low.

4. High Chicago poker: High hand split the pot with the player who has the highest spade down after the showdown.

5. Low Chicago: High hand splits the pot with the player who has the lowest spade down after the showdown, Aces are high only.

6. Murder: If a poker player is dealt an up-card that matches in rank with another up-card in his hand (i.e. pairs up), then he has to match pot or fold.

7. No Murder, No Game: Identical to 'Murder' but if while dealing all four up-cards have been dealt to each player and nobody has paired up, then the cards are re-dealt and each player re-antes. On the other hand, if a player is paired up and chooses to fold, the game is still good. All that matters is that someone paired up.

8. Suicide: Identical to 'Homicide' but up cards are given and exposed just like in Roll-Your-Own.

9. High San Francisco: High hand splits the poker pot with the player who has the highest heart down after the showdown.

10. Low San Francisco: High hand splits the poker pot with the player who has the lowest heart down after the showdown, Aces are high only.

11. Homicide: Same as Murder, but cards are dealt 1 down and 6 up, and if the down-card pairs up, then it and all like it in that player's hand are wild, e.g. if a player has a 3 down, and has, as his up-cards, 3, 9, J, 2, 3, 7, then all of the 3s are wild.

12. Two of Three: Win by having either two of these three: high hand, high spade or low spade. If none have it then the game is re-dealt but those who folded wait till this poker game ends.

13. Follow The Queen: If one of the face-up cards turns out to be a queen, then the following card will be a wild card as will all cards of the same rank. Likewise if another queen turns up. But if the last card that is dealt turns out to be a queen then nothing is wild. If no queens turn up, then the hands are thrown in, and it is dealt again to the poker players that have not folded.

14. Touchies: If a poker player is dealt two consecutive cards in the same suit, then both of those cards are wild.