General Rules of PokerĪll poker games, be it Seven Card Stud, Texas Hold’em, or Omaha High/Low, follow the general rules of poker. This is the first of twelve introductory lessons on seven-card stud. However, seven-card stud is still a popular game and can be a good game to both play and make money in. Today, of course, hold’em gets most of the publicity in the poker world. When I was a student at Berkeley, every night in the dorms we either played bridge or seven-card stud. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.” – Vannevar Bush “If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world.