In Hi/Lo poker an Ace counts as a low card when you are calculating the low part of the board. In fact, the Ace is the best possible low card, then the Deuce, then the Trey. Thus the Ace is doubly important in. Lowball is a form of five card draw poker where the lowest hand wins. Popular forms of lowball include Ace to Five - or California Lowball - and Deuce to Seven - or Kansas Lowball. Rules are similar to standard poker.

Low Hole

A variation on 7-card stud, where every player has at least one wild card...

Overview:

This is just like 7-Card Stud, but with an interesting system for wild cards. The lowest card that each individual player has face-down (aka 'in the hole') is wild for that player - as are cards of the same value. So if a player's face-down cards at the end of the hand are 7, 4, and 3, then all 3's in that player's hand are wild. (Note: Aces are always high compared to any other card for the purposes of determining the low-hold card.)

Now, notice that in 7-card stud, your last face-down card is the last card you receive. So if you're in the middle of the game, with 2 face down and 4 face-up cards, and your low face-down card is a 5, and you have two 5's face-up, then you have THREE wild cards! That's a good situation to be in. But that last face-down card could be a 2; then your 5's would cease to be wild. That's why there's the option to 'buy' your last card face-up; you can pay $2.00, for example, to have that last card be face-up instead of face-down, to protect a fragile multiple-wild-card situation. It sounds complicated in writing, but once you've played this game a few times, it'll make perfect sense!

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Give this game a shot - it's definitely one of the most enjoyable games I know. Big hands tend to win, too - four of a kinds, straight flushes - I've even seen two five of a kinds go against each other! It's a blast...