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Seven Card Stud High Low Rules |
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SEVEN CARD STUD HIGH-LOW
Seven-card stud high-low split is a stud game which is played
both high and low. A qualifier of 8-or-better for low applies
to all high-low split games (unless a specific posting to the
contrary is displayed). This means to win the low half of the
pot, a player's hand at the showdown must have five cards of
different ranks that are an eight or lower in rank. (An ace
is the highest card and also the lowest card.) If there is no
qualifying hand for low, the best high hand wins the whole pot.
A player may use any five cards to make the best high hand,
and the same or any other grouping of five cards to make the
best low hand.
RULES OF SEVEN-CARD STUD HIGH-LOW
1. All rules for seven-card stud apply to seven-card stud
high-low split, except as otherwise noted.
2. A player may use any five cards to make the best high hand
and any five cards, whether the same as
the high hand or not, to make the best low hand.
3. An ace is the highest card and also the lowest card.
4. The low card by suit initiates the action on the first round,
with an ace counting as a high card for this purpose. On subsequent
rounds, the high hand initiates the action. If the high hand
is tied, the first player in the tie clockwise from the dealer
acts first.
5. Straights and flushes do not affect the value of a low hand.
6. Fixed-limit games use the lower limit on third and fourth
street s and the upper limit on subsequent rounds. An open pair
on fourth street does not affect the limit.
7. Splitting pots is only determined by the cards and not by
agreement among players.
8. When there is an odd chip in a pot, the chip goes to the
high hand. If two players split the pot by tying for both the
high and the low, the pot shall be split as evenly as possible,
and the player with the highest card by suit receives the odd
chip. When making this determination, all cards are used, not
just the five cards used for the final hand played.
9. When there is one odd chip in the high portion of the pot
and two or more high hands split all or half the pot, the odd
chip goes to the player with the high card by suit. When two
or more low hands split half the pot, the odd chip goes to the
player with the low card by suit.
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