The Players for a Hypothetical Hand

Our players are almost the same as we met in the hold'em game, but Iggy won't be playing. In hold'em, it was easy to play with nine players (or even ten, or eleven, if the table is big enough), because even with eleven players, it only takes 27 cards to complete a hand (two cards each to the eleven players, and five for the board).

In stud, if everyone stays to the end, you run out of cards with eight players (52 cards in a deck, 7x8=56). Despite this, casinos are quite willing to start stud games with eight players, because it is extremely unusual for everyone to stay in all the way. If that situation occurred, the dealer would turn the final card face up, making it a community card, instead of dealing everyone their final card face down. Don't spend much time worrying about this situation; you could play seven stud in casinos for years without encountering it.