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Board Gambling
Re: Kings Club Poker, semi-private games, mainly for serious poker players
by
iv4n
on 19/07/2022, 21:42:15 UTC
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Nice man, really nice! But if you wish to make a name here and leave a trace open a new thread, you need to sum all this up... check some threads in the service section, here in the gambling section, that can give you some clues! I know it may be a bit bothering, but it is what it is... you will either make some effort or you will be forgotten!

Badugi is a very simple game, you get 4 cards, you get to draw as many as you want 3 times, and then there is a showdown. Whoever has the lowest hand of 4 different suits, unpaired, wins. So if you have 9 of clubs, 8 of hearts, 3 of diamonds, 2 of spades, you have a 9832 low badugi. However, you would lose if someone has a lower number, for example, 7 of hearts, 6 of clubs, 5 of spades, 4 of diamonds, because 7654 is a lower number than 9832, even though your lowest card is lower, the ranking is counting from the top down. If nobody has a qualifying badugi, it goes to the best 3 card hand. So, for example, if you has 2 of spades, 3 of clubs, 4 of diamonds, and a 4 of hearts, you only have a 3 card ranking hand of 432. But you would still win vs an opponent with something like 8 of diamonds, 7 of diamonds, 6 of spades, 3 of clubs. His ranking would be a 3 card hand of, 763.

2-7 is also simple, you get 5 cards, you get to draw 3 times or 1 time, depending on the version, and it is just the opposite of normal poker rankings. So, in normal poker, the best hand you can have is a royal flush. Well, that's the WORST hand you can have in 2-7. The best possible hand in 2-7 is 75432, as long as they aren't all the same suit, because that would be a flush. So, for example, in 2-7, if you have 76522, a pair of 2s, you would still win if your opponent had 88543, which would be a pair of 8s. Also ace is high only in this version. So you having K7652 would win vs someone with A6543. Because ace is higher and the winner is the one with the lower hand.

Both of them are crazy! Literally crazy! After you get used to Texas and Omaha you play Badugi and 2-7 and you need to do the total opposite from "normal" poker! Smiley Thanks for reminding me about those two, and there is something similar with OMAHA  as well, some variations, but I didn't get to test all of them... Smiley

You miss mentioning short-deck poker! Very interesting and fast poker... I played short-deck more than some other variations, it's fast, and brings a lot of excitement because every deal we get some nice hand, but in this game Straight is something normal, the question is who has a higher one?! After all, playing with 32 cards is not the same as playing with 52, normally!

Still didn't answer, what blinds you play in these games?! Smiley I'm not pushing...