Five Card Stud

Rules: Deal one card down and one up to each player; bet. Do three more rounds of dealing one card up and then betting each time.

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Amazon: Five stud. Queens are wild unless you have a Jack or King. You may choose to stop taking cards at any time.

Blackjack v2: The high hand splits with the highest unbusted Blackjack hand made up of either their black or red cards. Blackjack ties are split between those players, but a proper Blackjack beats a simple 21.

Cribbage: The high hand splits with the highest cribbage hand.

Daily Numbers: Five stud, but before the first deal face up, dealer deals five cards face up on the table in a row, numbered 1 to 4. As cards are dealt face up, if it matches the same rank in the same position, that card (not rank) is wild. If it matches a card in a different position, you get a bonus down card.

Double Take: Five stud high-low. After the fourth and fifth cards are dealt, you may exchange any of your cards for a new one in the same orientation. After the last exchange, declare high or low, and have a final round of betting.

Fifty Five: 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.

Gold Brick: Pair and Drop, but the highest hand in the showdown skims 50 cents from the pot before the winner takes anything. This can theoretically take the entire pot.

Graverobber: Exactly a reversed Organ Donor. This is Pair and Drop, but when someone folds, stop and take choose cards from highest to lowest showing.

Highlander: You can choose a rank to be wild for you, if and only if you only have one of that rank.

Organ Donor: The saner cousin of Zombie Apocalypse. Five Card Stud, but as soon as someone folds, pause and take their face up cards, from lowest to highest showing hands. If this goes around and there are still cards, begin collecting again from lowest.

Pair and Drop: Five Stud Lowball -- the lowest hand wins.

Pig: Five Card Stud, but after the last round of betting everyone picks up their cards and plays like Five Card Draw -- discard and take in cards, and one more round of betting.

Vizzini: When you are dealt an up card, you may pay ten cents to pass it to the left or right and receive a replacement card. No player may receive more than two cards this way. It is normal for players to wind up with different sized hands. Paying someone to pass you a card is considered poor form.