Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo Calculator

What the game is

Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo is a split-pot stud game where high and qualifying low hands can divide the pot.

Rules of Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo

• Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo is played with stud-style individual cards and no community board, so players do not share flop, turn, or river cards.
• The deal starts with each player receiving two face-down private cards, called down cards or hole cards, and one face-up card, called the door card.
• After the first betting round, each remaining player receives one more face-up card on fourth street, fifth street, and sixth street.
• The final card, seventh street, is dealt face down. A player can finish with seven total cards: three down cards and four up cards.
• The high hand is the best five-card high hand a player can make from that player's own seven cards.
• The low hand is the best five-card low hand a player can make from that player's own seven cards. It does not have to use the same five cards as the high hand.
• A low hand qualifies only if it has five different ranks that are eight or lower. Aces count as low, and straights or flushes do not hurt the low.
• If no player qualifies for low, the best high hand wins the entire pot.

Example calculations

• Enter Player 1 with A♣ 2♦ down and 3♠ 7♥ K♦ up against Player 2 with K♣ K♥ down and 4♣ 5♦ Q♠ up to compare low draw plus high backup against a high-only hand.
• Use dead cards to see when a low draw is still live.
• Model later-street spots with several exposed up cards.

Strategy examples

• Scoop potential matters more than playing for only half.
• Dead low cards can dramatically change the value of a draw.
• Use the calculator to compare high backup when multiple players chase low.

Calculator preview

Preview the Stud Hi/Lo calculator

The Stud Hi/Lo calculator link opens the full table view with Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo already selected, so you can move from the rules on this page straight into a real hand study.

Use it to enter the same kind of cards shown in the examples, adjust known board cards or dead cards when they matter, and see how each card changes the numbers.

For split-pot games, the results help separate high equity, low equity, and scoop potential instead of blending everything into one vague guess.

Clicking through is the fastest way to preview the real Stud Hi/Lo calculator workflow before you start building your own examples.

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