Triple Draw 2-7
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12/13/2005 12:35 PM
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Paul Thomas is from Brooklyn, New York. He enjoys playing in both the finest and dingiest poker rooms you can imagine.
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Would you like to get a headache? We’ve got the game for you! It’s called Triple Draw 2-7, and it mixes elements from several well-known poker games and throws in a big monkey wrench. It’s a six player maximum, 5-card draw, low only game. But low hands here are not limited to 8 and under, and aces only play as high. What’s the worst hand possible? It’s a Royal Flush! So if you want to jump into the “bizarro poker world”, then take a seat and play this game. Some people obviously are, as it’s available on several on line poker sites, including UltimateBet.com.
The player whose turn it is to be in the dealer position has a button in front of them, just as in Texas Hold’em. In the first two spots to the dealer’s left are the small and big blinds. These two spots are required to make forced bets to get the pot started. In a $1/$2 game the small blind would be .50 and the big blind $1. Once the blinds are posted, we’re ready for:
Each player is dealt five cards face down and it’s time for the betting to begin. In this round, the first to act is the player to the left of the big blind, just as in Texas Hold’em. This player can fold, call the amount of the big blind, or raise twice the amount of the big blind. For example, in a $1/$2 stakes game a player would be limited to betting $1 to call and $2 to raise. This continues around the table until all bets and raises have been called. The fun is about to start because now it’s time for the first round of:
The first remaining player to the left of the dealer now has the option of discarding none, any, or all of his cards and “drawing” an equal number of replacement cards. This continues around the table with the dealer discarding and “drawing” last. Now the first player to draw is the first to have a betting option, and this makes its way around the table until betting is completed. Next is more of the same but the stakes go to high end in:
This is exactly the same as the last round except at this point the stakes go up. For example in a $1/$2 game the only bet or raise that can be made is $2. It’s now time for the game to live up to it’s name, Triple Draw, because the hand is getting expensive and near completion as we once again repeat the process in:
You are now, if still in the hand, allowed to draw for the third and final time. It’s the last chance to make your best “bizarro” hand. This is exactly the same as the last round, with the high stake bet/raise still enforced, and when the betting is complete we move on to:
Remaining players turn their cards over and the worst standard poker hand wins. This is unlike a low qualifying hand in Omaha Hi/Lo or 7-card Stud Hi/Lo. First of all, aces play only as high, so it’s better not have one. Also, straights count, so 6-5-4-3-2 doesn’t work too well in “bizarro” poker either. Flushes count too, as do pairs, three and four of a kind, full houses, straight flushes, and a Royal Flush. The better standard poker hand you have, the worse it is for you in Triple Draw 2-7. The best hand in this game is unsuited 2-3-4-5-7 and it’s called a “wheel”. The next best is unsuited 2-3-4-6-7, and is referred to as “Number 2”. Unsuited 2-3-4-5-Ace does not make a straight because aces only play high. It would be referred to as the “nut ace”, because it’s the best possible Triple Draw 2-7 hand you can make with an ace. To further illustrate, the worst possible hand in this game you can make without a pair or better (actually worse in this game) is A-K-Q-J-9. The bottom line here is your worst hand is judged first by the highest card in it, so an unsuited K-Q-10-9-8, wins over any hand containing an ace.
In a game where 6 players can discard up to 5 cards each 3 times, there’s a chance of running out of cards from the shuffled deck. This quandary is resolved by using all cards that were discarded during the hand and were placed in a ‘muck’ pile, which is simply a term for where the dealer keeps all the discards. If the dealer runs out of the original shuffled deck and more cards are required to fill drawing requests, the dealer simply shuffles the mucked cards, using them as the new deck for the remainder of the hand.
It’s odd to find comments in a poker rules section, we agree. But unless you are consistently the most unlucky card player you know, this is likely not your game. There are plenty of positive games out there to jump into, and if you go into Triple Draw 2-7 as a novice on line, your experience will likely be less than pleasant, but very likely quite “bizarro”. Special thanks to the folks formerly of “Seinfeld” for borrowing their concept of “bizarro”.
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