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Fourplay Poker Rules

These rules of Fourplay are a 7 Card Stud variation is generally played with between 3 and 10 players. You would play this game as you would 7 Card Stud as the games are very similar. This variation is very popular in parts of the United States and makes for interesting games due to the wild cards that the game incorporates.

You guessed it. The rules all that fours (as in the name), are wild cards. This is to say that they can be any card that you want (that contributes to make your best possible hand). The game can be very wild as the addition of the wild cards means that players get much better poker hands.

Due to this fact, a pair and 2 pair is not as dominant as the game sees a lot of flushes, straights and full houses so very often two pairs can be a long way behind.

Game and betting structure are identical to 7 Card Stud as below:

The Bring in Bet

After the first three cards have been dealt, the player showing the lowest up card must make what is called a "bring-in" bet. As with the ante, the size of the bring-in varies depending on the size of the stakes.

Fourth Street (The Second Round of Betting)

After the action has been completed on the opening round, the dealer gives a face-up card to each player remaining in the game. Unlike the first round, where the lowest hand was forced to start the action, in this second betting round, the highest hand on board has the option to start the betting- that is, the player showing the highest hand is called upon first to either bet or check.

If a player raises the bet to $6, all further calls or raises are in $6 increments.

Fifth and Six Streets (round of betting)

On fifth street, you receive your third up card, and then there is a round of betting, again started by the highest hand on board. There are no more $3 bets: all bets and raises are at the higher $6 increments. Sixth street is virtually identical: an up card is dealt, the highest hand acts first, and all bets and raises are at the higher $6 increments.

Seventh Street (round of betting)

In 7 Card Stud, the betting on seventh street is identical to sixth street, but the card dealt is the last card you will receive, and it is dealt face down, meaning that like your initial two hole cards, only you know what you've received. After you examine this final card, you assemble your best possible five card poker hand out of the seven in front of you. Don't forget that a hand is always five cards.

If your hand is (4-4) 5-6-5-7 (7), you don't have "three pair." Your best hand here is two pair, sevens and fives, with a six kicker.

Due to the fact you wind up with four cards showing and three cards in the hole, it is possible to have an extraordinarily well-disguised hand in seven-card stud. Your board (visible cards) can look like you have a collection of garbage hands, but you could have a hand a strong as four of a kind. The only clues your opponents might have to the hidden strength of such a hand are the aggressive way you would likely bet, if you started with trips (rolled up), and the fact that they never saw another open card that matched your first open card.