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“Follow the Queen” is a variation of Seven-Card Stud Poker. It’s a bit more interesting and unpredictable because the wild card can change during the game. Here’s how to play:
Everyone antes to start the game. Each person will ultimately be dealt two cards face-down, four cards face-up, and one card face-down (in that order). The betting begins after each person has been dealt two cards face-down and one face-up. The person with the highest card showing (ace is high or low, as in most poker games) will begin the betting. After betting, each person gets another card, and once again, the best hand showing will bet. This same pattern will continue until each person has been dealt all seven cards.
What makes this game unique is that if a queen is dealt face-up to somebody, the card immediately dealt after that one (and all cards like it in everyone’s hand, both face-up and face-down) is wild. In other words, you want the person before you to be dealt queen.
Here’s the catch, though - let’s say a queen is dealt to someone and the next card dealt is a seven. That seven is wild UNLESS another queen is dealt face-up. If that happens, the next card dealt face-up is wild and the seven no longer is wild. If the last person receiving the last face-up card is dealt a queen, nothing is wild.
So to summarize, each person will have seven cards (two face-down, four face-up, and one face-down). There will be one ante and five total bets (one bet after each person has received three cards, and one bet after each round dealt after that). The card that immediately follows the last queen that is dealt face-up is wild (and every card like it in everybody’s hand, face-up or face-down). If no queens are dealt face-up, nothing is wild. If the last card dealt face-up is a queen, nothing is wild.
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