Follow the Queen is a type of poker game that is starting to enjoy a surge in popularity. The game is a variation of seven card stud. When the players are playing Follow the Queen all of the players agree that the Queens are wild. The reason the game is called follow the Queen is because in addition to the queen being wild, so is the card that it dealt directly after the Queen card. This follow up card is called the trailer card. Sometimes a second Queen card will be dealt. When this happens the card that follows becomes wild and the original trailer card returns to the value that would have originally had if it had not been dealt as a trailer card. During a hand of Follow the Queen the only cards that can be wild are the Queen cards and one trailer card.
If a hand is dealt and there have been no FullTiltPoker Queen cards have been dealt, all of the players are expected to ante up, the cards are collected, shuffled, and redealt until a Queen card has been dealt face up. The hand cannot be played if no Queen cards are dealt.
Before any cards are dealt, everyone who is sitting at the table is expected to ante up. If a player does not ante up, they will have to sit out the hand and wait for the next one. Once the ante is on the table, the dealer will deal each player two cards. These cards should be dealt face down. After this, the dealer continues to deal another round of cards, this round is dealt face up for all the players to see. At this point the game will be played just like a normal game of seven card stud.
There is one variation of Follow the Queen that adds an extra twist to the game. If the players are playing something called low Chicago Follow the Queen they need to understand that the way the pot is divvied up is going to be very different from the way that they are accustomed to. When the game is FullTiltPoker.net Low Chicago Follow the Queen the pot does not go to a single player but two . The player who is holding the highest hand will get half of the pot. The other half of the pot goes to the person who was dealt the lowest, face down, spade card. In the situations where the person who has the both the highest hand as well as lowest face down spade card, the player does not have to split the pot. The same is true if no face down spade cards are deal throughout the hand.
There are times when the pkr players like to change things up and play something that they call Follow the Cowboy. The rules of Follow the Cowboy are just like the rules for Follow the Queen with the only difference being that the Kings instead of the Queens are wild.