stud-poker

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noun A variety of poker in which the first card is dealt face down and then one face up.

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Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers.

Chapter 1 2010
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.

Babbit 2004
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.

Babbit 2004
After supper Joe proposed a game of stud-poker but Babbitt refused with brevity, and Joe contentedly went to bed at eight.

Babbit 2004
They slept all afternoon, and till midnight played stud-poker with the guides.

Babbit 2004
Rouge et noir, roulette, faro, keno, and stud-poker were going in full blast.

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
Thus by well-defined stages, and hugging now his Dream, to the stud-poker game.

Winner Take All Larry Evans
He played stud-poker well; better than most men he knew; and that was no empty conceit, either.

Winner Take All Larry Evans
The stud-poker table attracted his attention, first by the size of the stakes and then by the men gathered there.

Kid Wolf of Texas 1938
The roulette wheel whirred, and even at that early hour, cards were being slapped down, faces up, at the stud-poker table.

Kid Wolf of Texas 1938