How To Play Badugi

Badugi action on Pokerstars Below is a recent screenshot of some $10/$20 limit Badugi action on Pokerstars. However limits range from $0.25/$0.50 all the way up to $400/$800 with $100/$200 games frequently running.

Badugi action on Pokerstars

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Ray Davis wins inaugural WCOOP Badugi event

Veteran pro and poker personality Raymond Davis became the first WCOOP Champion in Badugi early Wednesday morning.

Davis, no stranger to the poker world having cashed regularly in major poker events since 2002, overcame a tough final table that included Danny “THE__D__RY” Ryan and Billy “The Croc” Argyros to book the win.

Known for his sense of style and outspoken personality, Davis has taken down six-figure scores in the 2008 $50K H.O.R.S.E. and the 2007 WPT Five Diamond event at Bellagio, but this is his first WCOOP title.

A total of 376 players paid the $320 buy-in to take part in the event, which was added to the WCOOP schedule, in part due to Team PokerStarss Pro Barry Greenstein’s constant requests.

Because Badugi, a four-card draw lowball game, is such an unusual variant of poker, the field contained a high ratio of pros including Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Chris Moneymaker, Gavin Griffin and many others.

Greenstein hosted the event and proceeded to taunt close-friend Davis throughout the final table.

“Normally I would congratulate all of you, but you’re behind Raymond Davis, which is quite embarrassing,” wrote Greenstein in the chatbox at the start of the final table. “I have to root for you Raymond. No one else owes me money.”

Argyros, who is commonly referred to as Billy the Croc, entered the final table as one of the short stacks and didn’t make it long until he was eliminated in 7th place. Argyros later admitted in the chatbox that it was his first Badugi tournament.

The other well-known pro at the final table, Ryan is known as a sit-and-go master, but also finished fifth in the 2008 EPT Copenhagen event. Ryan entered the final table with a medium stack but was eventually ousted by Davis in fifth place.

In the end, Davis entered heads-up play against bobsmith166 with a small chip lead.

The two agreed to an almost even chop, but still played one hour and 30 minutes heads-up before Davis finally landed the knockout blow, winning both the WCOOP title and the $19,912 that came with it.

Here are the complete final table results:

1. Raymond “raydavis77″ Davis - $19,912

2. bobsmith166 - $17,312

3. goleafsgo41 - $11,844

4. Cordelia - $8,460

5. Danny “THE_D_RY” Ryan - $5,640

6. JP OSU - $3,948

7. Billy “crocky” Argyros - $2,820

8. MadisonAce29 - $2,820

Report by PokerListings.com

How To Play Badugi is proud to report that a Fixed Limit Badugi event has is apart of the new 2009 Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) series.

Scheduled to shuffle up and deal at 16:30 ET on the 8th September 2009, the FL Badugi event has a $320 direct buy-in with the tournament having a $100K guarantee by Pokerstars.

Badugi was originally part of last years WCOOP but was dropped from the schedule so with an event making the WCOOP schedule this year it shows Badugi has made some progress in terms of popularity over the last year.

If a $320 buy-in is too steep, satellites start from as little as $1 or 100 FPP’s. Qualifiers will run around the clock. Good luck if you enter this.

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Baduci - the new mixed game on the horizon?

Badugi, you mean?

No … In Vegas, a new game has been added to the mixed live games, which is a sick mixture of Badugi and Triple Low Draw, and rumours are this game might be added to online poker site Pokerstars within a year.

Baduci. ‘Badu-ci’.

Basically it’s 2-7 Triple Draw (the “duci,” as in deuce-y part of Baduci), where you try to make the best deuce-to-seven hand. But if someone also can make a 4-card Badugi (A-4 low, no pairs or same suited cards) then that person can split half of the pot.

In Badugi games you are looking to make the lowest possible hand with no pairs, sets or flushes. The nut holding in Badugi is A, 2, 3, 4 with the cards being of different suits. Many people confuse the Ace. In Badugi the Ace is the lowest possible card, it is not a high card so having the Ace is a good thing.

However in the 2-7 part of the game, you don’t want to have an ace in your hand. As you may notice from the name of the game, in 2-7 the lowest card is a 2. This means that when playing the 2-7 portion of the game, the Ace is the highest possible card. So if you have an ace in your hand, the chance of you getting the 2-7 pot is not a good one.

Baduci Rules & Structure:

1. Each player is dealt 4 cards.
2. First round of betting begins to the left of the big blind.
3. Each remaining player can trade in up to 3 cards.
4. Second round of betting begins with the player to the left of the dealer.
5. Each remaining player can trade in up to 3 cards.
6. Third round of betting begins with the player to the left of the dealer.
7. Each remaining player can trade in up to 3 cards.
8. Fourth and final betting round begins with the player to the left of the dealer.
9. Showdown

The person in 1st position after the blinds will have the opportunity to call, raise or fold just like in any other kind of poker. If you call and stay in the pot throughout the betting round, you will have the chance to draw up to 3 of your cards for hopefully better ones.

Once everyone has drawn their cards, another betting round will start. This is repeated allowing 4 betting rounds and 3 chances to trade cards. After the final betting round, if there is more than 1 player left it will be time to flip your cards and see who wins.
Two live action pots in every hand of Baduci!

Some Baduci strategy is to remember that the pot is split in 2, one going to the best Badugi hand and one going to the best Deuce to Seven hand. Now keep in mind that for the 2 different pots, there are some variations. As mentioned above, in Badugi an Ace is low and in Deuce to Seven an Ace is high so although having an Ace is a bad thing for the deuce to seven pot, having an Ace is an excellent card for the Badugi pot.

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Pokerstars are in development to introduce breaks sync’s in MTT’s, so that all tournament’s go on break at the same time.

This is for a long time been the bane of MTT’s grinders, with a bottle or bucket previously a necessaily item, they can now kick the bucket once this gets implemented!

See the below hilarious

2+2 forum post

Today some high stakes $100/$200 Heads Up Limit Badugi went down on Pokerstars when players mastermk and McPeanut went head to head.

McPeanut seemed to get the best of the action in the big pots, below are a couple of hand histories of the biggest pots that he managed to win with a 7hi and 9hi Badugi

PokerStars Game #29243122324:  Badugi Limit ($100/$200) - 2009/06/11 9:15:45 ET
Table ‘Meissa’ 8-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: McPeanut ($8538 in chips)
Seat 6: mastermk ($5004 in chips)
McPeanut: posts small blind $50
mastermk: posts big blind $100
*** DEALING HANDS ***
McPeanut: raises $100 to $200
mastermk: raises $100 to $300
McPeanut: calls $100
*** FIRST DRAW ***
mastermk: discards 1 card
McPeanut: discards 2 cards
mastermk: bets $100
McPeanut: raises $100 to $200
mastermk: calls $100
*** SECOND DRAW ***
mastermk: discards 1 card
McPeanut: stands pat
mastermk: checks
McPeanut: bets $200
mastermk: calls $200
*** THIRD DRAW ***
mastermk: discards 1 card
McPeanut: stands pat
mastermk: checks
McPeanut: bets $200
mastermk: raises $200 to $400
McPeanut: raises $200 to $600
mastermk: calls $200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
McPeanut: shows [7c 5s 4d 3h] (Badugi: 7,5,4,3)
mastermk: mucks hand
McPeanut collected $2599 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $2600 | Rake $1
Seat 4: McPeanut (button) (small blind) showed [7c 5s 4d 3h] and won ($2599) with a Badugi: 7,5,4,3
Seat 6: mastermk (big blind) mucked

PokerStars Game #29243154394:  Badugi Limit ($100/$200) - 2009/06/11 9:17:08 ET
Table ‘Meissa’ 8-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 4: McPeanut ($9537 in chips)
Seat 6: mastermk ($4003 in chips)
mastermk: posts small blind $50
McPeanut: posts big blind $100
*** DEALING HANDS ***
mastermk: raises $100 to $200
McPeanut: calls $100
*** FIRST DRAW ***
McPeanut: discards 2 cards
mastermk: discards 1 card
McPeanut: checks
mastermk: bets $100
McPeanut: calls $100
*** SECOND DRAW ***
McPeanut: discards 1 card
mastermk: discards 1 card
McPeanut: checks
mastermk: bets $200
McPeanut: raises $200 to $400
mastermk: calls $200
*** THIRD DRAW ***
McPeanut: stands pat
mastermk: stands pat
McPeanut: bets $200
mastermk: calls $200
*** SHOW DOWN ***
McPeanut: shows [9h 3c 6s 4d] (Badugi: 9,6,4,3)
mastermk: mucks hand
McPeanut collected $1799 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1800 | Rake $1
Seat 4: McPeanut (big blind) showed [9h 3c 6s 4d] and won ($1799) with a Badugi: 9,6,4,3
Seat 6: mastermk (button) (small blind) mucked

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