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This
is seven-card stud with fives and tens wild, but a player dealt
a five face up must pay five chips (where the betting limit is one
chip) to the pot, or drop, and a player dealt a ten face up must
pay ten chips to the pot, or drop.
Innumerable other wild-card variations are played, including (listed
by George Coffin in "Fortune Poker"): Dr. Pepper: seven-card
stud with all tens, fours and deuces wild; Four Forty-Four: eight-card
stud with four cards face down and one up, with a betting interval
after each, and all fours wild. In Four Forty-Two, deuces are wild.
In Three Forty-Five, three face-down cards are dealt and one up,
then a betting interval, then three more face up with a betting
interval after each, then an eighth card face down and a final betting
interval. All fives are wild.
How to play: All these games are roughly or exactly equivalent to
Baseball, and can be treated together. When Baseball is played with
seven cards, the hands run very high. Five-of-a-kind is quite common,
and in a pot with any serious betting, nothing less than four aces
should be given consideration.
You should be even more wary of matching the pot in the seven-card
game. An opponent may always be lurking with two jokers in the hole,
and the pot should not be matched unless you are a very strong odds-on
favorite to win. When your opponents may have two concealed jokers
it is usually impossible to assure yourself of the necessary odds.
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