Some play that if no queens are dealt face up, no one wins and there is a new deal, played for the same pot, involving only the players who did not fold on the deal without a face up queen. In this version there can be as many as seven wild cards in play: three concealed queens and four wild cards created by an exposed queen. Some play that all queens in the hole are wild. If the last face up card dealt is a queen, there are no wild cards. If another queen is dealt face up, the previous wild card is cancelled, and the face up card following the new queen becomes wild instead. For example a player gets the Q face up and the next player is dealt the 7 face up: all sevens are now wild.

This is seven card stud in which when a queen is dealt face up, the next card dealt face up and the other three cards of the same rank become wild for all players. Similar games can of course be played using any suit: for example in High or Low San Francisco the high hand splits the pot with the highest or lowest heart.

In Low Chicago the pot is split between the lowest spade (ace counting high) and the highest hand (it is not a low poker game). Without this, you cannot declare spade and win, even if all the other players are going for high. You must have a spade face down to be eligible to win the spade half of the pot. Declaration can be either in sequence, starting to the left of the dealer, or simultaneous, using chips. A player declaring both wins only if holding both the highest spade and the highest hand. Each betting round is begun by the player with the highest hand showing.Īfter the final betting round the active players declare whether they are going for highest (face down) spade, highest hand or both. There are five betting rounds: one after each round of face up cards and one after the final card. The cards are dealt as in seven card stud: two cards face down, four cards face up and the last card face down. Face up spades do not count, so for example if the ace of spades is dealt face up, the king of spades in the hole is sure to win half the pot. This poker variant, also known as High Chicago, is a seven card stud game in which the pot is split between the highest hand and the highest spade in the hole. In most of these seven card stud poker variants, a special role is played by the spades, the queens or the queen of spades.

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