Exposed Card ( poker )


1) Any card dealt face up, as any of the up cards in a stud game.

2) A card that inadvertently appears face up during the deal in a draw game, or that gets accidentally turned face up.
Card rooms have various rules for dealing with such accidental exposures, such as ruling the card dead
(that is, not legally playable), dead at some times but not others, and so on.
For example, in draw poker (high), an exposed card during the initial deal is often not declared dead, but is
dead at any time during the draw. In lowball, during the initial deal, sometimes any exposed card 6 or
higher is declared dead, but any card A through 5 can be kept by the player to whom it is dealt; during the draw,
usually any exposed card is deemed dead. In stud and flop games, down cards inadvertently exposed by the dealer are usually ruled dead.