five-card stud

“He seems to know what’s going to happen before it does. When that happens, you’re playing five-card stud with six cards. It’s a pretty good hand to be playing with.”

He taught Harris to play five-card stud poker.

There were two tables — the big table, where hundreds of dollars exchanged hands over five-card stud, and the little table, whose participants played for coins or dollar bills and peppered the games with wild cards.

In 1992, to settle a tie in a Republican primary race for a state House election in Arizona, two candidates — Richard Kyle and John Galord — settled on a game of five-card stud.

“We were holding a different hand — like five-card stud,” Mr. Robertson writes.