SEVEN CARD STUD HI/LO
Seven card stud high-low is a variant of seven card stud. The game is also called seven card stud 8-or-better, seven card stud split, or seven card stud/8 (and indicated on the lobby tab as stud H/L). The game is played at an eight-handed table. The betting, ante, and bring-in are exactly the same as seven card stud. At the showdown, the pot is split between the holder of the highest hand and the holder of the lowest hand if that low hand is topped by no worse than an 8 . (The 8 is known in the poker world as a qualifier .) If that restriction is not met, the entire pot goes to the holder of the highest hand. Also, the same hand can win both the high and the low half of the pot. Winning the whole pot in either of these ways is called scooping .
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The bring-in works in seven card stud high-low exactly the same as seven card stud.
The only betting difference is that the appearance in anyone's board of a pair on fourth street does not offer an optional increase in the betting limit. In seven card stud high-low, the first two betting rounds are always at the lower limit and the last three always at the higher limit.
Just as in the high version of seven card stud, each player starts with two hole cards and one upcard, followed by a round of betting, and then the dealer gives each active player three more upcards, each followed by a round of betting, and then a final downcard. Thus each player ends up with seven cards, four face up and three face down. The difference between seven card stud high and seven card stud high-low is that in seven card stud high-low each player can potentially have two different hands, a high hand and a low hand. Each player forms a five-card high hand by using five of his seven cards. Each player forms a five-card low hand (if possible) by using five of his seven cards. Both the high hand combination and the low hand combination can use the same set of cards, but they don't have to; in fact, usually they would not.
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