The hand rankings are the same as in any hold’em or Omaha game. The goal is to make the best five-card hand utilizing any of the five cards available to that player. They are-in order after the hole cards-third street (aka “the door”), fourth street, fifth street, sixth street, and seventh street (aka “the river”). There are two hole cards that are face-down and hidden from other players, with the next four cards dealt face-up and the very last card face-down. Seven-card stud is named such because each player can receive seven cards in a hand. In fact, the game is now more popular in tournament series than ever before. And when those new, young players wanted more game variations, many of them took up stud poker. However, older players kept seven-card stud alive.
When Texas Hold’em became popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, stud fell out of favor for many players, especially the newer, younger audience. Seven-card stud remained in vogue throughout most of the 1800s and 1900s as one of the prominent forms of poker played in casinos, saloons, and riverboats, and at home. Five-card stud poker was the first stud game, but seven-card stud emerged as a more popular variation due to the higher number of betting rounds and hand possibilities. Stud poker is a card game in which some cards are dealt face-down and others face-up, and the game became popular in North America during the American Revolutionary War.
