A Poker Variant

Rules for the no-peekie version:
Each player is dealt a hand of seven cards. The players may NOT look at them! Starting from the dealer's left, each player turns over one card at a time until (s)he has the highest hand. If a Queen appears, the next card that is turned over is wild. However, if the Queen of Spades appears, the game is dead, and the dealer reshuffles without awarding the pot to anyone.

The poker variant follow the queen is regularly played as a seven-card stud hand with the following variants (though of course any rule variations are up to the dealer in house rules). Players play through a seven-card stud hand with matching betting but wild cards are determined during play. Whenever a queen is dealt face-up the next card dealt is wild and all cards matching it become wild. Therefore if a queen is dealt to player 3 then player 4 gets dealt a 6: all sixes become wild. If a queen is dealt after a queen then all queens become wild PLUS whatever the next card is again. Some play where queens are wild from the start and if the last card dealt face-up is a queen then ONLY queens are wild.

This game results in choppy pot sizes and works better as you approach maximum players for your game. If you are not a fan of games with wilds then this will severely throw off your playing style. I'm guessing San Francisco poker players don't mind wilds seeing as this is quite a popular poker game there.
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