Dr. Pepper
A Seven-Card Stud variant themed after the soda: 7s are wild, and any player dealt a 10 face up may pay to buy an extra card — playing on the old '10, 2, and 4' slogan.
Coming soon — not yet playable
Rules
Dr. Pepper is dealt using the standard Seven-Card Stud structure: two down cards and one up card to start, up-cards on fourth, fifth, and sixth street, and a final down card on seventh street, with a betting round after each street.
Two special rules apply. First, all 7s are wild for every player, for the whole hand, usable as any rank and suit needed to complete the best possible hand (similar to how 3s work in Baseball). Second, referencing the old Dr. Pepper marketing slogan ("drink a Dr. Pepper at 10, 2, and 4"), any player dealt a 10 face up may pay an agreed buy-in amount into the pot to receive one additional card immediately (drawn from the top of the deck, replacing nothing — it becomes an extra up-card).
Showdown proceeds as in standard stud, with the wild 7s included when evaluating each player's best five-card hand from their seven (or eight, if they bought a card) cards.
Strategy notes: With 7s wild, made hands can be dramatically stronger than they first appear from the exposed cards alone, so bring-ins and reads based purely on up-cards are less reliable than in standard stud; buying an extra card off a 10 is a house-rules judgment call that's usually only worth it with an already live, promising up-card set.
Common house rules
Buy-in price for the extra card
The cost to buy a card off a 10 varies by table — commonly set equal to the current bring-in or small bet, agreed on before the hand is dealt.
One buy per player per hand
Most tables cap the extra-card purchase at once per player per hand, even if a player is dealt more than one 10 face up over the course of the streets.
7s wild for straights and flushes only ('the bug')
A stricter variant treats the wild 7 as 'the bug' — usable only to complete straights, flushes, or as an extra ace — rather than a fully wild card, to keep hand values from inflating too far.
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