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Chapter 8

Quick Reference — Dealing Patterns

Card backs are face down, card faces are face up. The patterns you will use most.

Card backs = face down. Card faces = face up.

Seven Card Stud · 5 betting rounds

The house standard. Absolute Wildfire, Baseball, Black Mariah, Dr. Pepper, Rembrandt, Woolworth …

Five Card Stud · 4 betting rounds

Crazy Stud, Rained Out, Three Out of Five, Three Card Substitution

Six Card Stud · 4 betting rounds

Sixty-Nine

Six Card (3 down) · 4 betting rounds

Three Thirty-Three — opening bet after the three down cards

Eight Card Stud · 6 betting rounds

Eighty-Eight

Dealing Patterns — Continued

Eight Card (3 down) · 5 betting rounds

Three Forty-Five

Nine Card Stud · 7 betting rounds

Ninety-Nine

Five Card Draw · 2 betting rounds

Deal, bet, draw, bet. Ruin Your Neighbor, Tens High, Two Legged Poker, Zombie

Roll Your Own · 5 betting rounds

All seven dealt down; you choose which four to expose. Roll Your Own. (Mexican Stud, Ricky De Laet and Shifting Sands use a six-card version — see their entries.)

No Peek · Rounds vary

Deal down, unseen; flip one at a time until you beat the table. Blind Pig, Seven Card No Peek, Night Baseball, Limba

House convention: bet after each face-up card, plus once more after the final down card. Patterns that end on an up card have one fewer round.