Amazon is playable by up to six players, and an excellent way to spark up a short-handed game of mississippi. Starting requirements should be set a little higher than for seven-card stud or mississippi, though the two card flop will encourage callers with inferior hands to call more than they should. A maximum of two hole-cards may be used at the end. Murrumbidgee has a much wider variety of hands possible than in tahoe and omaha because of the absence of communal cards. Starting hands should have as many working cards as possible, though three good cards is a playable hand, as the stats for mississippi and murrumbidgee show.
Big pairs are usually playable because the side cards are live kickers.
A small pair with two large kickers is often playable. Both hole-cards must be used in the final hand. Both hole cards must be used in the final hand. A flush beats a full house in all stripped-deck games. Invented mid 1998.