Stud questions

[NickMPK]

When playing Stud, are you required to maintain the order in which your up-cards are dealt to you, or can you mix them up?
If someone asks what order the cards were dealt, are you required to tell them?

Also, at showdown, if someone asks which card you got on the river, are you required to reveal this, or can you also mix up the order of your down cards?


On a different topic, I was playing Stud the other day and there were five players going to the river and six cards left in the deck. The dealer dealt a community card face up rather than a card face down to everyone. He said you had to have a burn card and a card left over at the bottom of the deck in order for everyone to get a card.

This seems absurd to me, and much more damaging to the integrity of the game than just dealing the bottom card from the deck, especially since a cut card is being used. If anything, the dealer should be reshuffling the burn cards from previous streets and dealing them on 7th before resorting to a community card on the river. What the hell is the purpose of this rule?