stud poker

American  

noun

Cards.

1. a variety of poker in which each player is dealt one card face down in the first round and one card face up in each of the next four rounds, each of the last four rounds being followed by a betting interval.

2. any similar variety of poker.

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stud poker British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: stud.  a variety of poker in which the first card is dealt face down before each player and the next four are dealt face up ( five-card stud ) or in which the first two cards and the last card are dealt face down and the intervening four cards are dealt face up ( seven-card stud ), with bets made after each round

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Etymology

Origin of stud poker

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

The title of Wilder’s film is taken from stud poker and refers to Tatum’s search for the competitive edge in the ruthless game of selling news to the public.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2020

An upstart card shark has a marathon game with the king of stud poker in 1930s New Orleans.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

Experimentation ... resembles nothing so much as a game of stud poker.

From Inc • Nov. 29, 2012

As our executive education students ponder what aspects of new product development are concealed by the stud poker metaphor, they usually point out that: New product development is not necessarily a zero-sum game.

From Inc • Nov. 29, 2012

By the fourth card I had three other spades showing, which gave me four-fifths of a rare flush in stud poker.

From Card Trick by Berryman, John