Looking for an online room with 5 card draw

So I've recently gotten into the whole online gambling scene and signed up for bovada. I like it but I was hoping I'd find a 5 card draw or maybe a 7 card stud in the poker rooms but it seems they don't have that, does anybody know of any online poker rooms that DO offer good old fashioned 5 card draw to play against other players in? I like holdem and all but it just gets boring after a while.

Carbon Poker deals 5 card draw. Rarely any players in the rooms though. Also, they may have started blocking US players. Haven't been on in a while.

That's a shame if they are blocking US players, I love 5 card draw. Used to play it with my grandma and grandpa back in the good old days when I was a kid!

Quote: Zer0

That's a shame if they are blocking US players, I love 5 card draw. Used to play it with my grandma and grandpa back in the good old days when I was a kid!

I assumed that's how everyone started.

Quote: AxelWolf

I assumed that's how everyone started.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of kids starting college recently (which is where a lot of people get their first taste of real poker) don't know anything besides Hold'em - and probably No Limit at that.

Carbon bans five states or so. NV, NJ, DE, NY come to mind. If you live in NV or NJ you can find 7 stud at WSOP.com.

Quote: ThatDonGuy

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of kids starting college recently (which is where a lot of people get their first taste of real poker) don't know anything besides Hold'em - and probably No Limit at that.

Most are at very least aware of the other games, though many don't know the rules. Stud seems to be a foreign concept to most young people today unless they are poker enthusiasts, but let's be honest Stud is a really boring version of poker as compared to PLO/NLHE or even limit versions of those games. I mean a minority of players are going to disagree with me there, but Stud isn't really an action game and isn't all that intricate. It's just memory and drawing odds.

FWIW, I've never seen a US facing site sustain those games, but I've never played on Carbon (well I played a freeroll when I was considering using the site) or the Merge network. Maybe they do have games running, but until it's all regulated and whatnot it's a longshot IMO.

Plus there's about a hundred reasons not to support Carbon/Merge, but for whatever reason they're bigger than WPN. Better software/better word of mouth I guess.

Quote: ThatDonGuy

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of kids starting college recently (which is where a lot of people get their first taste of real poker) don't know anything besides Hold'em - and probably No Limit at that.

The first game I learned is no-limit holdem in 2004. I'm 34. I rather play other games though as I got burned out on hold 'em.

Forgot to add that both Bovada and WPN do have Stud, but Stud runs only rarely on WPN. (Zero games right now. In my experience, it's not tough to get a game running, but the right people - who even bother to check.)

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The first game I learned is no-limit holdem in 2004. I'm 34. I rather play other games though as I got burned out on hold 'em.

Try winning and you might like it better.

Quote: Buzzard

Try winning and you might like it better.

There are some games I'll personally never get into even if I do wind up playing it and get a decent hit on. One prime example is Let It Ride, even if something were to possess me to play that game and I hit a progressive that one time, I still probably wouldn't play again. Why? Because I'll still remember how the other times I played it were like pulling teeth. There are some games that for me the frustrating nature of losing trumps the excitement of winning. Baccarat for me is another game that for me I could be up 500 bucks and still have half my attention diverted to another game that's got a full table that I like better. And I got to say Hold 'em is just the same grind over and over, plus it always sucks when you have decent hole cards and want to see the flop, some guy goes all in, and you know you should fold, you do, and lo and behold you'd have had a full house and the guy turns up with a pair of aces and wins. That's what I like better about 5 card draw/seven card stud.

Quote: Buzzard

Try winning and you might like it better.

Yeah winning $6750 at NL holdem in one day was pretty sweet I guess.

Bovada has stud 8 or better.

I played 7 card stud on bovada last night and I get 2 idiots yelling at eachother in the chats like 12 year olds playing CoD and one of them starts complaining that bovada is "rigged" and how he made a living playing poker until all the good rooms got banned. Don't you just love internet people?