Fifty Five

Rules: Sort of like Five Stud, Roll Your Own, but doubled. Deal two cards face-down to each player, for each of five rounds. You get to build two Five Stud hands in front of you, allocating the cards to those hands. You may build the hands as you like, but you cannot move a card once it is committed, and you must end with two standard Five Stud hands (one down, four up). At the end, the lowest and highest showing hands split the pot.

Analysis: A strategically messy game, which I call now and then -- you are ideally trying to build one low and one high hand, but there is a lot of guesswork.

A good game for five players, but cannot be played with more than that.

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