Badugi rocks !

Shortstack

Ok I am losing (a bit) but it is great fun! A bit of a gamble but there is some strategy to it.

Roundtower seems to have the knack although he did just take a big hit. How can you fold any Badugi when someone has drawn cards all the way?

RoundTower

I'm losing my bollocks! I was up about $600 but I finished down for the day in badugi. You will have to fold a badugi quite a lot. Some people don't bluff and don't bet without a badugi, which means you have to fold your Q- and K- badugis, especially if you bet and they raise.

In principle you never have the odds to draw to a badugi heads up, because you are only getting 3-1 on your money. In practice you may have implied odds both in and out of position.

Shortstack

I was down a couple of hundred but now wiped that out and up a couple

RoundTower

I left it in frustration but will come back. Just seemed every time I had a T someone else had a 9, every time I had a 9 someone else had an 8, and so on in the big pots. If anyone wants to play Omaha on my table right about now, I'll probably pay you off.

Shortstack

I have found that standing pat after round 2 when everybody is drawing wins a lot of pots.

ocallagh

i've noticed you playing that trick so i've done the same a few hands and it works likea treat!

basically you're betting 16 into a 32 pot and they call 16 for a draw. if you stand pat with aything, you're going to win that pot 3 out of 4 times with a 16 bet after the last draw

RoundTower

I noticed you doing that as well, but never called you. I've done it, but not nearly as much as you.

Shortstack

ocallagh wrote:

i've noticed you playing that trick so i've done the same a few hands and it works likea treat!

basically you're betting 16 into a 32 pot and they call 16 for a draw. if you stand pat with aything, you're going to win that pot 3 out of 4 times with a 16 bet after the last draw

I'm sure some people will catch on to this and there will be a lot of re-bluffing happening in this game.

I've a feeling it will turn into 'who's got the biggest balls' poker soon once people catch on.

ocallagh

i've nearly doubled my cash in 25 mins.

rarely get looked up by a 3 card badugi.. maybe i'm just hitting -ihave no idea, great game

mewso

Folks don't panic. If, like me, you have no clue what these people are talking about then worry not. We can always try google.

Shortstack

musician wrote:

Folks don't panic. If, like me, you have no clue what these people are talking about then worry not. We can always try google.

Badugi is a four card triple draw lowball game where a hand needs to be of 4 different suits. The best hand is A234 - 4 different suits. When it goes to showdown and no-one has a Badugi hand - four different suits then the best 3 card Badugi hand wins. It is played as limit or more popularly - Half pot limit.

Ste05

Quick Q about Badugi, does Ac2c3s4h only count as a 3 card badugi???

Shortstack

Ste05 wrote:

Quick Q about Badugi, does Ac2c3s4h only count as a 3 card badugi???

Yes would be Ac 3s 4h 3 card Badugi should take down most non-4 card Badugi pots.

Ste05

Shortstack wrote:

Yes would be Ac 3s 4h 3 card Badugi should take down most non-4 card Badugi pots.

Ah, I see, it looks like a pretty good game, I was watching a table the other day, might have to play it soon, although is it worth moving money into PPP for it??? I'm not sure....

Shortstack

Looks like the softness of this game has already gone! Seems to be a lot good players on here now. :mad:

ocallagh

sry Mike! I still dont really know what i'm up to, but getting the hang of it

ocallagh

LuckiernU seems to know what he is up to..

Shortstack

Yeah he cold decked me earlier. I was dealt 876A and he was dealt 8643 and $300 of mine went in pre-flop :mad:

He has caught better Badugi's countless times when people have been pat with a worse one.

ocallagh

he just stung me for a 110 with a 6 high badugi..., i didnt believe him... - how is he getting that lucky! :mad:

RoundTower

We should definitely organise this in the Fitz.

bohsman

RoundTower wrote:

We should definitely organise this in the Fitz.

This used to be played in Dublin and if you start playing it in the Fitz the sharks will appear. I am sure people like Charlie Power are already cleaning up on Tribeca

RoundTower

I'm not sure who's cleaning up, it's a small enough player pool. There are some people clearly losing, but no obvious winners. There seem to be a load of different rules both for hand ranking and betting, so previous experience mightn't count for all that much. Of course experience playing any draw/lowball game helps.

Mike you are standing pat way too much on crap badugis, you can definitely fold or break some J and T badugis, even lower.

Shortstack

RoundTower wrote:

I'm not sure who's cleaning up, it's a small enough player pool. There are some people clearly losing, but no obvious winners. There seem to be a load of different rules both for hand ranking and betting, so previous experience mightn't count for all that much. Of course experience playing any draw/lowball game helps.

Mike you are standing pat way too much on crap badugis, you can definitely fold or break some J and T badugis, even lower.

Yeah I have worked that one out now Still up slightly over the two days. Sometimes you probably have to fold 8's too.

RoundTower

I twice folded a badugi predraw in the last hour or two. Both times I was out of position against the third raise, when I had put in the second raise. Both times I had K-Q or Q-J or similar badugis and was fairly sure I was up against a made hand with f*ck all chance to outdraw it. I think dardumbyu might have bluffed me off similar hands on the first draw though, even when I was in position. Hard to tell.

a-k-47

my first badugi hand 2349o Lost to a234 lol.. interesting

Shortstack

Yeah I have started folding them as well unless I have position or 3 cards under a 7 so I can break it.

MadsL

Damn, I go away for two weeks and the whole world changes. My head hurts.

Doc Farrell

welcome back to the same old nonsense Rich!

a-k-47

its abit slow, not mad bout it

ocallagh

i was doing better when I had absolutely no idea what was going on...

mewso

ocallagh wrote:

i was doing better when I had absolutely no idea what was going on...

Luke get in there. Sounds like your kind of game.

Lafortezza

and you play with 4 cards too, sounds perfect.