stud poker game in which each player gets one concealed card and four exposed cards.
A poker game in which each player is dealt five cards, one down and four up, with betting after 2, 3, 4, & 5 cards.
Five-card stud is the earliest form of the card game, stud poker, originating during the American Civil War,http://www.worldcasinodirectory.com/pokerhistory.htm World Casino Directory: History of Poker but is less commonly played today than many other more popular poker games - clear from its absence from the World Series of Poker. It is still a popular game in parts of the world, especially in Finland where a specific variant of five-card stud called Sökö (also known as Canadian stud or Scandinavian stud) is played.http://www.reviewed-online-poker.com/game/soko Soko: Poker game review The word sökö is also used for checking in Finland ("I check" = "minä sökötän").