Triple Draw

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2. Triple Draw Rules
3. Triple Draw Rules
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Today Triple Draw is rarely played in the Ace to Five format, with Deuce to Seven being the version of choice. In 2004, 2-7 Triple Draw made its debut at the WSOP in an event won by Farzad Bonyadi. Triple Draw then took a two year hiatus from the WSOP schedule before returning in 2007 again in deuce to seven format where it has remained since. 2-7 (Deuce to Seven) Triple Draw Lowball is a poker game in which the low poker hand wins the pot at showdown. In other words, it is a form of ‘Lowball’. It is a ‘draw’ game, meaning that you are dealt five cards, and may discard from zero to five of them on the draw, and receive that number of replacement cards.

Lowball hand rankings fall into four main categories A-5, A-6, 2-7 and 2-6. This article will cover each category and show you what beats what when playing different lowball poker games. The one thing that all of the lowball poker hand rankings have in common is that they are all based around players making the lowest possible hand as opposed to the highest possible hand.

The most popular lowball games are Razz, 2-7 Triple Draw and 2-7 Single Draw all of which can be played at PokerStars.com alongside Badugi and Stud Hi/Lo.

Ace to five hand ranking

When playing any game that uses ace to five hand rankings the best possible holding is A-2-3-4-5 which is commonly known as the wheel. Aces are always considered to be low cards when playing ace to five lowball games and straights and flushes are completely ignored when evaluating hand strength. Razz poker is the most popular lowball poker game which uses ace to five hand rankings and is basically Seven Card Stud but with lowball hand rankings replacing the usual hand rankings.

When playing Ace to Five lowball games it’s important to note that Aces are low cards and low cards only. This means that A-A-x-x-x would always beat 2-2-x-x-x.

Ace to six hand rankings

The best possible hand when playing any poker game which uses the ace to six hand rankings system is A-2-3-4-6. This is because straights and flushes count as high hands instead of being ignored. Aces are always considered low cards. Ace to six is often known as 6-4 low because the best hand you can make is 6-4-3-2-A. London Lowball is one of the only poker games which uses the ace to six lowball hand rankings.

Remember when you play Ace to Six poker that A-K-Q-K-T is in fact not a straight. Aces are low cards only and therefore A-K-Q-K-T would beat a hand like 3-10-J-Q-K. Like in Ace to Five poker A-A-x-x-x would always beat 2-2-x-x-.

2-7 hand rankings

When using 2-7 hand rankings the absolute best possible hand is 2-3-4-5-7. Aces are always high cards when using deuce to seven rankings and straights and flushes will always count as high hands. 2-7 is often known as 7-5 due to the best possible hand starting 7-5. The deuce to seven hand rankings are thought to be the exact opposite of the regular high hand rankings used by most poker games. 2-7 Single Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw are the most popular deuce to seven games around.

2-6 lowball hand rankings

2-6 lowball hand rankings state that the best hand a player can make is 2-3-4-5-6. This is because aces are always high cards but straight and flushes never count against you. Deuce to six lowball hand rankings are pretty uncommon and there aren’t any games online you can play which use this ranking system.

If you fancy playing any of the top lowball poker games then PokerStars.com is the place to do so. Currently they spread the following lowball games:

– Razz
– Badugi
– 2-7 Triple Draw
– 2-7 Single Draw
– Stud Hi/Lo
– Omaha Hi/Lo

Visit PokerStars the best place to play lowball poker online.

Triple Draw Poker

Overview:

A - 5 Triple Draw Poker

This poker variant is obviously part of the family of draw-poker variants, i.e. those variants where you have to draw cards. In this particular case, every player is dealt five cards, all of which he may choose to exchange during three exchange-rounds, in order to build the best possible hand. In A-5 triple draw, the best possible hand is – contrast to most other poker variants – the lowest one, i.e. A, 2, 3, 4 and 5; straights and flushes do not count as such. Should you want to play A-5 triple draw online yourself, we recommend you give PokerStars a try. There, you can play A-5 triple draw at any time of day and if you register through BBB, you will even get a welcome bonus.

The course of the game

Up to 10 players may participate. At the beginning of A to 5 Triple Draw, two players who sit next to the dealer (the person marked with the dealer button) have to place their blinds. This happens before the cards are dealt. The blinds are there to make sure that there is money in the pot so every winning hand can actually win money. Since the dealer button moves on clockwise from player to player with each round of the game, every player has to pay a blind at some point during the game. The player to the left of the dealer places the Small Blind, the player to his left has to place the ‘Big Blind’ which is usually twice the amount of the small blind.

Cards and 1st betting round

As soon as all players have paid their blinds, each player is dealt five cards face down. Now, starting with the first player to the left of the big blind, all players may decide whether they want to ‘fold’, ‘call’ or ‘raise’. If you have a nice hand, it is recommendable to raise right away because as soon as you do not exchange cards during the first exchange round, the other players are warned.

1st exchange of cards and 2nd betting round

Each player may now exchange up to five of his cards, this is followed by another betting round, where – again – the first player to the left of the dealer has to start to bet.

2nd exchange of cards and 3rd betting round

Again, all players have the possibility of exchanging up to five of their cards and thus try to build a better hand; this is followed by another betting round – as always, the first player to the left of the dealer button has to start betting.

3rd exchange of cards and 4th betting round

Now players can exchange cards one last time and the following –ultimate – betting round is, again, started by the first player to the left of the dealer button.

Showdown

During the showdown, the winner of the relative round is determined – the player with the best hand wins the pot. Should there be two players with a hand of the same value, they share the pot, suit does not count. When two players have a similar hand, where only one card is different, the player, where this particular card is lower, wins. For example: One player has A, 2, 4, 5, 6 and the other player has A, 2, 3, 5, 6 -> the second player wins because, apart from the four identical cards they have in common, the second player has one lower card.

Standard poker moves

Fold

If you do not like the cards you were dealt, you have the opportunity to discard (fold) them and thus leave the current round of the game. Should you be big or small blind or should you have called someone’s bet already, you lose the money. Apart from that though, since you have folded, you cannot lose any more money during this round.

Check

If you want to keep your cards and stay in the game, you can, for example, check. This means that nobody before you has placed a bet yet and that you do not either. Now the player after you has the opportunity to check himself, or to bet. If any of the players in the round bets, you need to – as soon as it is your turn – decide whether you fold, call or raise.

Call

To call means that, in case a player before you has placed a bet, you bet the same amount as he does; you call his bet.

Bet and raise/re-raise – according to the limit

If you find you have been dealt decent cards by the online poker casino you are playing at, you can bet a certain amount of money on your hand being the winning hand. If a player before you has already placed a bet, you can raise his bet. Depending on the betting structure the amounts you can bet or by which you may raise, are fixed.

• Fixed limit: On a $ 5/$ 10 table you may bet $ 5 in the first two betting rounds and up to $ 10 in the last two. In each round players may bet once and raise three times (bet, raise, re-raise and again re-raise or ‘cap’). After three rounds of betting the so-called cap is reached, this means that in this betting round, no more betting can be done. In this case the next card is dealt – or if it was the last round – the showdown begins.

• No limit: Here the betting structure follows these rules: Each player may bet all the money he has on the table, regardless of the size of the pot. As a rule, the minimum bet has to at least equal the amount of the Big Blind and if you decide to raise, your raise does at least have to equal that of the player before you.

• Pot limit: In a pot limit game a player may bet a sum between the minimum bet and the total size of the pot. In a $ 5/$ 10 pot limit game the small blind is $ 5 and the big blind $ 10. The first player could call the big blind (i.e. $ 10 in this case) or raise to any amount up to the total pot size. The raise has to either equal or exceed the previous bet. So in this case, the maximum possible raise would be $ 25 ($ 5 small blind, $ 10 big blind and $ 10 the call) which means that player #3 may actually bet a total of $ 35. So should player #3 raise the pot limit, the total amount in the pot would then be $ 50.
  Now if the next player (let’s say player #4) wants to go on playing, he at least has to call the $ 35, i.e. the bet player #3 has made. Should player #4 want to raise (up) to the pot limit he would have to put $ 120 into the pot. That is the total pot size ($ 50) plus the maximum raise of $ 70 ($ 35 call + $ 35 raise). The number of betting rounds per hand is not limited and in each round calling and raising continues until every player has either called, or folded his cards.

All-In

Primarily, players go ‘All-In’, when they have a particularly good hand. This is because: when one or more other players call this move and the player who went all-in wins anyway, his winnings in this round increase considerably. Another possibility would be, that a player goes all-in to bluff and merely signal that he has a good hand, in order to make the other players fold and win himself the pot. (What the precise rules for an all-in situation are is described in the following paragraph.) Apart from the situation described above, players could also go all-in for the following reason: In case a player lacks the necessary amount of chips to call or finish a hand but has nice cards and wants to stay in the game anyway, he does not have to fold. The player can also go ‘all-in’; so he bets all of his chips (even if they are not sufficient to cover the sum he would actually need to call) and can stay in the game without being able to act any further though. All the money that is in the pot up until the point when he goes all-in, is what the player can win. All money put into the pot after he went all-in is put in a separate pot (‘side pot’). Should the player who is all-in, win the showdown, he wins the main pot, whereas the side pot goes to the player with the second best hand. When a player goes all-in and his fellow players decide to call his bet, they obviously have to call the sum he bet.

Triple Draw Rules

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Short history of A-5 Triple Draw Poker

This poker variant obviously is a relative of 5 Card Draw – the possibly oldest and most common poker variant worldwide. Nobody knows how exactly 2-7 Triple Draw evolved into A-5 Triple Draw; it is possible though, that A-5 Triple Draw, became popular in the US already shortly after 5 Card Draw (i.e. at the beginning of the 19th century). Maybe, these are poker vartiants created by gold seekers and cowboys during long nights at the saloon – in search of a new, more exciting poker game (before the invention of Stud). Exotic variants like A-5 Triple Draw only become part of big poker events very rarely but still this poker variant is very common and popular as a welcome change among big poker-pros as well. Poker legend Phil Hellmuth is known as an expert with this poker variant.

Triple Draw Rules

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