Five Card Stud

Rate This. The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one. Director: Henry Hathaway. Writers: Marguerite Roberts screenplay , Ray Gaulden from a novel by.

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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Complete credited cast: Dean Martin Van Morgan Robert Mitchum Rudd Inger Stevens But it also has something rather rare, a well-made story.

Most action Westerns are directed by rote: good guy, bad guy, a standard pattern of fights, an eventual triumph for the gentleman in the white hat.

Not this one, which presents a suspense story in a Western setting. At a card game, a stranger is caught cheating. He is taken out and hanged, despite the objections of Dean Martin.

Then, mysteriously, the other members of the card game are strung up one by one. Watchmen: Season 1. The Walking Dead: Season Certified Fresh Pick.

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Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Cancel Resend Email. Add Article. The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to hang him.

One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man's lynching.

Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a couple of the other players from that ill-fated game have become victims of grisly murders.

The town has a new resident, a stern and somewhat edgy Colt. The transparency of a player's hand cuts out much of the element of uncertainty found in more popular games like Texas hold 'em , Omaha hold 'em and Seven-card stud.

In order to enlarge that element of uncertainty variants increase the number of hole cards, add a high-low split , play with a stripped deck , introduce a twist round, enable the player to do a ' roll your own ' game or even create new and interesting hand rankings.

The game can be played with low hand values, in which case the best low hand showing starts each betting round instead of the best high hand showing.

Also, the highest-ranking card must pay the bring-in if it is played with a bring-in. At the end of all betting rounds, the total pot is split into two - one for low-ranking hands, the other for high-ranking hands - and the hands are evaluated based on both low-ranking criteria for the low pot and high-ranking criteria for the high pot.

When playing High-Low it is common to use the Ace-to-five low hand ranking to evaluate the low hands and use the standard hand ranking when evaluating high hands.

In the United Kingdom, however, the use of Ace-to-six low hand ranking is common when evaluating low hands. This variant of five-card stud is almost identical to the traditional format - the only difference being the introduction of two new hands into the hand ranking.

Due to the sparse nature of flushes and straights in five-card stud, this variant counts four-card straights and four-card flushes as poker hands.

A four-card straight is ranked higher than a pair, a four-card flush is ranked higher than a four-card straight, and a two-pair is ranked higher than a four-card flush.

Instead of dealing the players one hole card and one upcard, in this variant the players are dealt two hole cards.

All subsequent cards are dealt face up, resulting in the fairly self-explanatory name. Instead of dealing the players one hole card and one upcard, in this variant players are dealt three cards face down.

The concealed card - the first dealt to each player - is sometimes known as the "hole" card. Traditionally, each betting round is begun by the player with the best hand showing.

For this purpose pairs, triplets, two pairs and quads count in their normal poker order - so for example with three cards showing is higher than , which is higher than A-K-Q.

Incomplete straights and flushes do not count. If there is a tie it is resolved by comparing the suits of the highest cards in the tied hands using the ranking order clubs low , diamonds, hearts, spades high.

Some play that in the first betting round, the first player must place a compulsory bet, called the bring-in. In this case there may be no ante, though an ante is usually paid as well.

Some play that the first betting round starts with a compulsory bring-in bet by the player showing the lowest card. This is now the normal rule in formal games hosted by American casinos.