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- n. A variety of poker in which the first card is dealt face down and then one face up. The ‘down card’ is then looked at, and the player having the highest card showing makes a bet if he chooses, and then the next on his left. Any player who refuses to ‘see’ this bet drops out A third card is then dealt, and so on until each remaining in the pool has five. After the betting is brought to a call, the down cards are shown, and the best poker combination wins all.
Examples
“Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers.”
“After supper Joe proposed a game of stud-poker but Babbitt refused with brevity, and Joe contentedly went to bed at eight.”
“They slept all afternoon, and till midnight played stud-poker with the guides.”
“In their boarded and rather littered cabin the guides sat about the greasy table playing stud-poker with greasy cards: half a dozen wrinkled men in old trousers and easy old felt hats.”
“All the way north he pictured the Maine guides: simple and strong and daring, jolly as they played stud-poker in their unceiled shack, wise in woodcraft as they tramped the forest and shot the rapids.”
“Thus by well-defined stages, and hugging now his Dream, to the stud-poker game.”
“He played stud-poker well; better than most men he knew; and that was no empty conceit, either.”
“Rouge et noir, roulette, faro, keno, and stud-poker were going in full blast.”
“The stud-poker table attracted his attention, first by the size of the stakes and then by the men gathered there.”
“The roulette wheel whirred, and even at that early hour, cards were being slapped down, faces up, at the stud-poker table.”
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