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Manila Poker (or Seven-Up Poker)

Manila Poker is one of the most popular poker games in Australian casinos and is a Texas Hold'em poker game variant (also called Seven-Up Poker in some places). It is played with a stripped deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed (leaving 32 cards). Each poker player is dealt two private cards, and a single community card is dealt face up, followed by the first betting round. Then a second community card is followed by a second betting round, a third community card and a third betting round, and fourth community card and a fourth betting round, and finally a fifth community card, fifth betting round, and showdown. On showdown, unlike Texas Hold'em (and more like Omaha), each poker player makes the best poker hand he can from both of his hole cards with exactly three of the five community cards.

Because of the stripped deck, a flush beats a full house. Also, an ace may not be played low for a straight (that is, the hand A-7-8-9-10 is not a straight in Manila Poker). Manila Poker and its variants are rarely played high-low split (in fact, very few stripped deck games are ever played low).

Common variations involve dealing three cards to each poker player, one of which can either be discarded at some point (like Pineapple Poker), or else held to the end, but maintaining the requirement that each poker player play exactly two of his own cards with exactly three of the board community cards. The three-card variant is sometimes played with 6s being restored to the deck, making it 36 cards.

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