Badoooooogi

[noble1]

Always harder to keep badugi secret than for egg to bounce on sidewalk.

Mind, like paraCrute, only function when open

[TopPair2Pair]

Anyone care to explain a bit more about Badugi?

Learn from hen - never boast about egg until after egg"s birthday

[rubertoe]

Badugi (also known as Badougi, Paduki or Padooki)[1] is a draw poker variant similar to triple draw, but with hand values similar to lowball. The betting structure and overall play of the game is identical to a standard poker game using blinds, but, unlike traditional poker which involves a minimum of five cards, players" hands contain only four cards at any one time. During each of three drawing rounds, players can trade zero to four cards from their hands for new ones from the deck, in an attempt to form the best badugi hand and win the pot. Badugi is a gambling game with the object being to win money in the form of pots. The winner of the pot is the person with the best badugi hand at the conclusion of play (known as the showdown).

The above is Picked from Wikipedia!!

[TopPair2Pair]

Sorry rcu1k33n, I couldn"t resist the egg and hen one! I believe the link you have is what i read to learn the game whilst playing a pl badugi freeroll at Carbon poker, it runs daily and not a bad way to learn the game for free - approx 1500 runner usually at 21:15 uk time and a good way to start out.

Also the hand rankings are very diff to normal poker! I am sure you"ve read that bit too... good luck Badooooging!

[Jon MW]

This is how you play Badugi  

$2.00+$0.20 Badugi Pot Limit - Level III (30/60)

Table "123473094 11" 8-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Rat- (2820 in chips)
Seat 2: Downriver (1290 in chips)
Seat 3: cocool101 (6340 in chips)
Seat 4: chi-square (4070 in chips)
Seat 5: ducfran (1770 in chips)
Seat 6: Jon MW (3960 in chips)
Seat 8: ethanj887 (3300 in chips)

cocool101: posts small blind 30
chi-square: posts big blind 60

*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to Jon MW [ :: :: ::]
ducfran: raises 120 to 180
Jon MW: calls 180
ethanj887: folds
Rat-: folds
Downriver: folds
cocool101: calls 150
chi-square: raises 720 to 900
ducfran: raises 870 to 1770 and is all-in
Jon MW: calls 1590
cocool101: calls 1590
chi-square: raises 2300 to 4070 and is all-in
Jon MW: calls 2190 and is all-in
cocool101: calls 2300

*** FIRST DRAW ***
cocool101: discards 1 card
chi-square: stands pat
ducfran: stands pat
Jon MW: discards 1 card []
Dealt to Jon MW [  ::  ::] []

*** SECOND DRAW ***
cocool101: discards 1 card
chi-square: stands pat
ducfran: stands pat
Jon MW: stands pat on [  :: ::]

*** THIRD DRAW ***
cocool101: discards 1 card
chi-square: stands pat
ducfran: stands pat
Jon MW: stands pat on [  :: ::]

*** SHOW DOWN ***
cocool101: shows [ ::   ] (3-card: 6,4,A)
chi-square: shows [Ts  ] (Badugi: J,T,5,4)
chi-square collected 220 from side pot-2
Jon MW: shows [ ] (Badugi: 8,5,3,2)
Jon MW collected 6570 from side pot-1
ducfran: shows [ ] (Badugi: 9,6,4,3)
Jon MW collected 7080 from main pot

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 13870 Main pot 7080. Side pot-1 6570. Side pot-2 220.

Seat 1: Rat- folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 2: Downriver (button) folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: cocool101 (small blind) showed [ ] and lost with a 3-card: 6,4,A
Seat 4: chi-square (big blind) showed [Ts ] and won (220) with a Badugi: J,T,5,4
Seat 5: ducfran showed [ ] and lost with a Badugi: 9,6,4,3
Seat 6: Jon MW showed [ ] and won (13650) with a Badugi: 8,5,3,2
Seat 8: ethanj887 folded before the Draw (didn"t bet)


Skill game, obv.

[Jon MW]

Final Table

Didn"t Win