Prephia is a variation of five-card stud poker. As such, players keep five cards – four cards up and one down. All cards that are down are wild, so if you have a five down, then all the fives in your hand are also wild. Prephia is played high/low; meaning, the player with the high hand splits the pot with the player with the best low hand. Low hand is considered as the worst poker hand – 2, 3, 4, 5, 7.

Before starting a game, you should collect the ante bet from every player. The dealer would then give one card down to each player. The dealer would then give a card face up to the player on his left, who would then choose if he’d like to take that card, get a card from the deck or receive a facedown card. If the player chooses to go for a facedown card, he will then have two down cards and decide which one to turn face up. Be aware that this decision is important because once you choose a facedown card, all cards like it would be wild for you.

After all players have taken their second card, you can now start a round of betting. The highest hand would first place his bets or decide to check, then the players would continue the betting. The bets are made clockwise around the table.

Once all bets are placed, the dealer would give the third, fourth and fifth cards to each player, allowing them to choose from a facedown card or an exposed card. Whenever a player decides to take a down card, he would be given a chance to flip any of his down cards up. As a result, he would be changing his wild card.

A final betting would then take place and players would then declare if they’re going low or high by simply placing one (for low) or two (for high) chips secretly in their hand. Once everyone has chips on their hands, all players would simultaneously reveal if they’re going high or low. Determine the winners and the pot is split between two players – half to the high hand and half to the low hand.

Seven-card stud poker is a famous variation of poker usually played in online rooms, casinos and private poker rooms. Each player would receive seven cards (four cards face up and three facedown cards), but only choose five of them in creating a poker hand. Seven-card stud poker involves several betting rounds with different betting limits. The betting structure could be a spread limit (wherein the players could place a bet in the ‘allowable range’ such as from $1 to $10) and fixed limit (wherein players can bet on any of the two amounts (such as $1/$2) that has been decided before the game). All bets are placed only in specific times throughout the game.

Begin playing seven-card stud by placing an ante bet. All players that wishes to play in the round requires to place an ante bet before being given two cards down and one card up. The one with the lowest card shown needs to place another bet, then each player (going clockwise) should call or raise the bet if they want to stay in the hand. Anyone who doesn’t wish to make a bet can fold his cards.

Each player receives a fourth card face up and another betting round takes place. However, the person with the best hand shown would start the betting, placing at least the minimum allowed amount. The players are given a fifth card face up and bets would be placed again; this process is repeated until each player has seven cards. Although bets are placed after all players receive an extra card, the minimum bet usually increases to a higher amount after the players receive their 5th card.

After the last bets have been placed, all remaining players must reveal their hands and whoever has the highest-ranking hand wins the pot. The pot is split if two or more players have matching hands.