How To Play Badugi

How To Play Badugi Guide

Badugi is one of the newest poker games in the online world and as a result there isn’t alot of information available on the web about how to play badugi. One of the first rooms to have the game is Carbon Poker. This article will show you how to play Badgui. Once you have finished reading it you should be have enough knowledge of the game to play online in the small stakes games.

A maximum of 8 players can sit at any Badugi poker table, players are dealt 4 cards straight off the bat. The player who sits directly to the left posts the small blind and the player to the left of the small blind posts the big blind (the same as any Holdem game). Play starts with the player who is on the left of the big blind and moves around the table in a clockwise direction.

A betting round takes place immediately and all players who remain in the pot the proceed to a drawing round. During any drawing round players have the option of discard any or all of their cards and replacing them with new cards from the deck. Once the first drawing round is over another round of betting commences. After a total of four betting and three drawing rounds play goes to a showdown.

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Badugi uses very different hand rankings to all other forms of poker. The best possible hand is an A-2-3-4 rainbow. When playing Badugi suited cards and pairs count against you, a hand with 4 non paired and non suited cards in is known as a Badugi. If you get to showdown and you hand contains a pair or two cards of the same suit then you are forced to discard one of your cards leaving you with a 3 card hand. You can be left with 4 card, 3 card, 2 card and 1 card hands when playing Badugi.

Note: In an 8 max Badugi game a 3 card hand is rarely good at showdown.

Most Badugi games online are fixed limit, in fact all online Badugi ring games are fixed limit. When playing fixed limit Badugi the betting limits are restricted to just the small bet amount until two betting rounds have passed. Then players can bet and raise in the big bet amount. In a $1/$2 game the small bet is $1 and the big bet is $2.

Badugi has only been available online since 2008 and as a result there just isn’t a lot of Badugi strategy advice out there. This is great for players who have mastered the game but if you are trying to learn how to play Badugi then it can be a right pain.

One of the best Badugi resources out there is the Badugi Poker Tips website. It covers everything you could want to know about Badugi and some top quality articles which can help you improve your win rate when you play Badugi online.

You can find some easy tables for Badugi Poker at Carbon Poker .

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