2 7 Triple Draw Starting Hands
- The best hands in 2-7 Triple Draw are ones that contain the five lowest possible cards with no pairs, straights or flushes. For example, the best possible hand in 2-7 Triple Draw is 2-3-4-5-7 because it contains the lowest possible combination of cards without any straights, flushes or pairs.
- Baduci (also known as Badeucy or Badeucey) is a combination of Badugi poker and deuce to seven triple draw, and uses hand values similar to lowball.The pot in this game is split much like high-low split between the best Badugi hand (with aces playing high in Baduci) and the best 2-7 triple draw hand. The betting structure and overall play of the game is nearly identical to a standard poker.
2-7 Triple Draw for Beginner Poker Players
2-7 Triple Draw can be extremely tricky for beginners to master, and requires more patience for a premium starting hand than other poker variants, especially when you compare to a game like Omaha, for example.
Premium Starting Hands – Stand Pat (Do not risk drawing cards, as you may end up drawing worse):
Best Starting Hands In 2-7 Triple Draw
2-7 Triple Draw Poker Rules. This hand is often referred to as Number 2. Likewise, 23567 is referred to as Number 3 and so on. Because Aces play for high 2345A is not a straight.
- 7-6-5-3-2
- 8-5-4-3-2
- 9-7-4-3-2
Premium Starting Hands – Draw One Card (If your opponent draws 3 cards, you may wish to Stand Pat) include any hands with these four cards:
- 7-4-3-2
- 7-5-4-2
- 6-4-3-2
- 6-5-3-2
- 6-5-4-2
Bluffing in 2-7 Triple Draw takes place based on position and how many cards your opponent is drawing. If your opponent draws 3 cards twice in a row, you may want to place a large bet and try to get them to fold their hand. If the opponent calls or re-raises, and you do not have a premium hand, you will typically give up rather than continue to bluff the last street unless your opponent draws 2 or more cards ahead of you.
The WSOP offers several tournaments of 2-7 Triple Draw, also referred to as 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw. The buy-ins range from $1,500 to $10,000. In 2018, the $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw event at the WSOP in Las Vegas attracted 109 entries for a total prize pool of $1,024,600. American poker player Nicholas Seiken won the WSOP bracelet and first prize of $287,987. The field was significantly higher than the 2017 event, which saw only 80 entries into the $10,000 tournament, which was won by Ben Yu for $232,738, with fellow American’s Shaun Deeb and Nick Schulman coming in second and third respectively.
PokerStars offers daily 2-7 Triple Draw tournaments in the micro and low stakes, and 2-7 Triple Draw also makes up part of the 8-game offering on PokerStars and in most Eight Game offerings around the world.
2 7 Triple Draw Starting Hands
Pokerstars also offers high roller variations of their 2-7 Triple Draw tournaments during special events, such as their Spring Championship of Online Poker.
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In 2017, Pokerstars offered the $2,100 2-7 Triple Draw event to their players for their SCOOP event. The tournament took place on May 11 2017, and shattered the $150,000.00 guarantee, attracting 145 entries for a total prize pool of $290,000. Pokerstars player “flong78” won the event and took home $69,600.00 after three and a half hours of grinding at the virtual poker tables.