This page will give you a good start with 7 card stud. Keep in mind that it is easy to learn how to play 7 card stud but to master the game can take a lifetime. You will find links on this page to play 7 card stud for free or for real money. It is not an urban legend that there are people who play holdem online and qualify to be in the big money tournaments. Playing 7 card stud for free is lots of fun and will help sharpen your game in the real world. Do not be shy about signing up with more than one online poker room. Sometimes they can get very crowded and it is handy to have more than one option. Depending on your connection and the speed of your computer you can have more than one game going at a time.

This is about making money. That is how you keep score.
Lots of people think that Poker is a game of luck. While there is some luck involved there are very many times that you can make your own luck. It just takes lots and lots of skill to do it.
A lot of the luck that you make for yourself will be involved with playing your position to the maximum. If you are acting as the dealer or, "On the button" as it is called you have the leeway to play much more agressively because you already have information about all the other players hands. Did they call, raise, or fold? If you are first to bet then you have to, first of all, play fewer hands, and second, play conservatively.