Variation: Same betting concept, except determining the win or loss comes down to the five card hand. Players make their bets after dividing their seven cards and then expose their two card hands. The players whose two cards hands are not as good as the dealer's are automatically out, their bets collected by the dealer. Those players remaining for the showdown of five card hands may add to their bets if they wish. Then, all players and the dealer expose their five card hands. Those players with better five card hands than the dealer are paid even money (including the amount that they bumped up their bet, if they chose to). Those without pay their bet to the dealer.

• Roll-Off: Two betting rounds isn't the most exciting stud game. Instead, a combination of roll-offs can add to the betting rounds. For example, players can roll off one card at a time for a total of seven betting rounds. Or, each player's two-card hand can be rolled off immediately, followed by a roll-off of each player's five-card hand, for a total of four-five betting rounds.
  
  
• Stud Deal: Instead of seven cards dealt all at once, cards are dealt one at a time. A betting round follows each card dealt, making seven betting rounds, after which half of the pot goes to best "big hand" and half to best "little hand". Still another variation would be to deal two cards, betting round, two cards, betting round, two cards, betting round, last card, last betting round.
  
  
• Reverse Pai Gow: Played along with any of the other aforementioned variations, each player's two card hand must be higher than their five-card hand. This forces players to put their strength into their two card hands, leaving weaker five-card hands.
  
  
• Pig: A progressive pot game, where the winning player must win BOTH hands to collect the pot. Otherwise, everybody re-antes and the cards are re-dealt. Betting rounds could be incorporated into this variation to help knock out players before showdown.