5-Card Stud, Last Card Down – This is regular Stud Poker, with the fifth card dealt face-down instead of up.
Mexican Stud – The first two cards are dealt to each player face down. Players look at their cards and select one to be placed face up. The concealed card is then wild for each player. After a round of betting, another card is dealt around face down. Each player decides which of the two concealed cards to turn face up, and which to keep in his hand for a wild card. Another round of betting follows. The process continues until each player has four cards exposed before him, and one wild card concealed in his hand. This card is wild only for the player who holds it, and likewise wild for him are all other cards of the same rank as the concealed card. After the final round of betting, all those players still in the game show their concealed cards and announce the values of their hands. The game is often played high-low.
5-Card Stud, Last Card Optionally Down – This game is similar to standard Stud Poker, except that the player may turn up his hole card before the last round is dealt and ask for his fifth card face-down.
Pistol, or Hole-Card Stud – This is played according to the standard laws of Stud Poker, except that there is a betting interval after the first (hole) card is dealt, making five betting intervals in all.
7-Card Stud Variation – On the first round of dealing each player receives two cards, one down and one up. After the betting interval he receives two more cards, one down and one up. After betting, two more cards are dealt similarly. After betting, the last card is dealt down. Each player then has three cards exposed on the table and four concealed in his hand. He turns over and discards one card from the table and one from his hand, leaving a Poker hand of two exposed cards and three concealed. The final round of betting follows, before the showdown.
Stud Variations, Other Than Five or Seven Cards – These games are played, in general, with the rules of Seven-card Stud. When six cards are used there may be two cards down and the next four up, or the first two may be down and also the last one. In Eight-card Stud, the first two are dealt down, the next five up, and the last one down. Some players try even more strange combinations of up and down cards, up to a total of ten. In every case, a player picks five of his cards to be his hand in the showdown.
Double-Barrelled Shotgun, or Texas Tech – Each player is dealt three cards face down, then there is a betting interval; another face-down card, another betting interval; a fifth face-down card, a third betting interval. There is then a draw as in Draw Poker. After the draw, each player turns up one card, followed by a betting interval; another card, followed by a betting interval; end so on, until each has four cards face up and one face clown, after which there is a final betting interval and a showdown. Cards must be turned up simultaneously, at a signal given by the dealer.