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View synonyms for stud poker
stud poker
noun
, Cards.
- 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. Compare seven-card stud.
- any similar variety of poker.
stud poker
noun
- 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 Often shortened tostud
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stud poker1
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stud poker1
C19: from stud ² + poker ²
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Example Sentences
In a Hot Springs, Arkansas, stud-poker game, a player named Burke became justly incensed one evening because he could not win.
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In a corner, presiding over a stud-poker game, I was surprised to see our old friend Mosher.
From Project Gutenberg
By the fourth card I had three other spades showing, which gave me four-fifths of a rare flush in stud poker.
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Therefore, he wandered about until he found a table where four men were playing stud poker.
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Plimsoll himself presided over the stud-poker table, dealing the game.
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He played stud-poker well; better than most men he knew; and that was no empty conceit, either.
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