Free Enterprise
Poker is a wonderful game to play. It is enjoyable and very exciting, on so many levels. Not only can one stand to win big amounts of money, but players can also win something that money cannot buy – the pride of being crowned a poker champ! Perhaps the 
reason why poker has so many variations is because this game needs to be more challenging and more diverse, or else people will become bored with it and master its mechanics easily. One of the complicated variations is Free Enterprise Poker. It has mechanics that are very similar to another Stud Poker variation called Buy Your Card Substitution Poker, however this version is much more tame and less aggressive. Both games are actually variations of Seven Card Stud – a classic, popular stud game played with seven cards: two cards distributed facing down, four cards distributed facing up and one last card distributed facing down. In the games of Free Enterprise and Buy Your Card Substitution Poker, the first distribution of cards is made up of two cards facing down as well. However, in Free Enterprise Poker, the dealer then turns the three successive cards up, taken from the main deck.
Starting from the player to the left of the dealer, everyone decides if they want to ‘purchase’ a card from the three that the dealer turns up. If a player says no, the dealer proceeds to give him a card from the deck. This card does not require any payment. Another similarity to Seven Card Stud is that a round of wagers proceeds every face up card dealt to a player. The point of purchasing cards here is that players get the opportunity to “buy” themselves a good hand. When everyone has seven cards, they take the five best to make a poker hand and the best hand wins the entire pot.