Follow the Queen

This game is derived from Seven Card Stud and is dealt in the same manner (two down, four up and one down) with betting rounds just like you would in stud.

To Play Follow the Queen.

Players will ante. Each player will first receive two cards face down and a betting round will begin. The dealer will than start dealing each player one up card. If a player receives a Queen that player must pay double the ante into the pot and the card the player receives directly to his right will be wild and he will also pay double the ante for receiving a wild card.

Don’t go crazy betting if this is you as the game changes constantly. A betting round will again take place followed by the dealer giving each player another card face up. Again if a player receives a Queen, he will pay double the pot and the player to his right will receive a card which will become the “new” wild card. The previous wild card is no longer considered wild.

During the last round the dealer will ask players if they want to receive their final card up or if they want to take it “down and dirty”. Since seven card stud is a game where you pretty much know what each player is holding, many players will choose down and dirty especially if it will help them extract the most amount of money from the pot if they hold the nuts.

Hand rankings are in the same order as a normal game of poker and because the game makes use of multiple wild cards, a natural hand will always win over the exact hand made with wild cards. Best hand in Follow the Queen is five of a kind.

If by chance a queen is not dealt to a player in any of the up cards, than the game will be declared “No queen, No game” and players will ante again and start over until a queen is dealt.