# How can you have 8 players in 7-card stud?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 6, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940 "2010-02-06T19:16:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/1 "2010-02-06T19:16:41Z")

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On Pokerstars, the max number of players in 7-card stud is 8.

But that would mean it’s possible to deal 56 cards.

There’s only 52 cards in a deck. There are no wild cards or jokers.

What gives?

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/2 "2010-02-06T19:21:48Z")

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I guess they are counting on several people folding prior to getting 7 cards.

In the absence of that, I guess the 7th card would be a community card.

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**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/3 "2010-02-06T19:51:27Z")

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Yes, in the unlikely event of 8 players sticking around until the river, they all share the last card as community.

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/4 "2010-02-06T20:06:10Z")

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So that means that the last card is up instead of down?

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/5 "2010-02-06T22:40:09Z")

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> [@Rysto](#):
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> So that means that the last card is up instead of down?

Yes, and it’s the 7th card for everyone.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-you-have-8-players-in-7-card-stud/527940/6 "2010-02-06T23:56:40Z")

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Thanks!

(Note: It is amazingly easy to win money at 4/8 cent stud on Pokerstars. You just can’t win a lot of it.)