Choosing 7 Card Stud
Knowing when to play and not to play Seven-Card Stud is important.  Each poker variant has its own strengths and weaknesses, and knowing the strengths of this particular variant might help you.  What you are looking for may fit exactly the qualities that you are looking for in a poker variant.  Therefore, it would help for you to know the general qualities and nature of Seven-Card Stud as it might either make or break your decision to play this game.
Challenging and Tricky
Seven-Card Stud is tricky and challenging at the same time.  Its trickiness is usually overlooked, even by its most faithful players.  Three out of seven cards dealt in Seven-Card Stud are face down, which means that they can, in no way, be seen by a player’s opponents.  Four, however, are face up and can be freely seen by everybody in the house.  This is where the trickiness of Seven-Card Stud is founded.  Some players usually put their faith in the four cards that they can see that they sometimes forget the fact that there are three face up cards or cards that can only be privately seen by their opponents.  This kind of mindset usually makes them think that the four cards compose the sole basis for winning, and they forget that the three cards can make or break the combination of cards.
But the inherent trickiness of Seven-Card Stud makes it all the more appealing to players.  The challenge is to go around the three face up cards and make sure that one wins, given the fact that there are three face up cards.
Number of Betting Rounds
The standard number of betting rounds in Seven-Card Stud is five.  The first betting round will occur after the first face up card has been dealt.  This will be followed by consecutive face up card dealing-betting rounds.  Every player can use this to his advantage.  Because many of the betting rounds will happen after a face up card has been dealt, a player can more or less determine if he is on the winning or losing side.  After all, he can freely see what his opponents’ cards are.
Choice of High and Low
The high and low subtypes of Seven-Card Stud can actually be of substantial advantage.  Winning combinations don’t oft happen in Seven-Card Stud.  What’s good about this is that the players can always make a consensus on whether or not they will reward the card combination with the highest or lowest value.