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The Showdown: Seven-card High-low Stud Poker
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Seven-card high-low stud is played similarly to the high or low seven card stud games. The major difference is that players are actually playing for two halves of the pot: half the pot goes to the player with the best high hand and the other half goes to the player holding the strongest low hand. If a player holds the best high and the best low hand, he will take the entire pot.
High-low seven-card stud is played as either declaration or cards speak. In declaration, which is predominantly played in private poker games, players declare at the showdown whether they're going for the high, the low, or the high-low end of the pot.
Declaration is accomplished by each player hiding a colored chip in his fist and extending his closed fist over the table. At a given signal, players simultaneously open their hands and reveal their declarations. White chips are usually used for a low declaration, blue chips for high, and red chips for high-low, though using coins or different color assign-ments will work just as well for the declaration.
Among the players who declared "high," the best high hand wins that half of the pot, while the best low hand among players who declared "low" takes the other half. If just one player calls "high" and the rest "low," the player declaring high automatically wins half the pot and need not show his hand, while the low callers must compete for their half with the best low total winning. And vice versa. If all players declare the same way, for example, all declare high, then the best high hand wins the entire pot. If all players declared low, then the best low hand claims the entire pot.
Players that declare "high-low" risk all, and must win both the best high hand and the best low hand or they forfeit the entire pot. It's an all or nothing proposition—they either win it all or lose it all. If a high-low declarer wins only one way, then he's out of the pot, and the best high hand and the best low hand split the monies.
Let's follow an illustrative showdown in a game being played as declaration. Five players remain: Donto, Fay, Julian, Eddie-boy, and Big Phil. The first three declare "high," the fourth "low," and the fifth, Big Phil, goes all out and declares "high-low." (Flavian has already folded and both he and his cigar watch passively from the sidelines.)
Here are the hands they hold:
Donto (Declared high) J* 10* 9* 8v 7*
Fay (Declared high) Kv K* K> 5+ 4v
Julian (Declared high) A* 10* 8* 6* 3#
Eddie-boy (Declared low) 7*6v4*3v2v Big Phil (Declared high-low) High: Ka 7 A 5a 4* 2*
Low: 7a 5* 4* 3* 2A
Big Phil's 7 5 hand is a stronger low than Eddie-boy's 7 6, but his king-high flush is weaker than Julian's ace-high flush. Therefore, Big Phil, unable to win both ways, loses his high-low declaration and wins nothing. Julian and Eddie-boy hold the best high and low hands respectively, and they split the pot. Had Big Phil declared "low" only, he would have won that half of the pot.
In cards speak, also called high-low split, the seven card high-low stud game played in the Nevada casinos, there is no declaration at the showdown. Players simply reveal their cards. The best high hand and the best low hand split the pot, or, if one player is fortunate enough to have the best high and low, he claims it all.
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