Play Badugi with Rakeback at Carbon Poker
Carbon Poker is the only poker room that both offers the game Badugi and allows their affiliates to offer rakeback. Therefore, if you’re looking for Badugi rakeback, Carbon Poker is your best option. If you’re not familiar with Badugi, it is a draw poker game played in lowball form, with a unique twist. Each player starts off with four cards and a betting round takes place. There are then three rounds of draws with a betting round after each. During each draw, a player may discard as many cards as they’d like and have them replaced with new cards. The goal is to make the lowest Badugi hand possible.
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The twist in Badugi comes in that a qualifying low hand is one that uses different suits. For example: a hand of Ah2h3c4s is a three card hand of Ah-3c-4s, the 2h can not be used as we’ve already used a heart (the ace) in making a hand. Also, in Badugi pairs can not be used: for example Ah, As, 2d, 3c is still only a three card hand as two aces can not be used in the same hand. The goal is to make a hand of four unpaired cards all of different suits. This is called a Badugi. When more than one player has a Badugi, the player with the lowest Badugi (ranked by the highest of the four cards, and if necessary using second highest as kickers) wins the hand. If no player has made a Badugi, the best (lowest) three-card hand wins the pot, and if no player has made a three card hand, the best (lowest) two card hand wins.
A-2-3-4 each in a different suit is the best Badugi hand possible.
In the past, Badugi was a game primarily played in high-stakes mixed games, or occasionally had a high-stakes table of its own in card rooms such Commerce in Los Angeles, California. Today, Badugi has become a little more popular thanks to it being offered online, first by Carbon Poker and then by PokerStars. Additionally, there are more live Badugi games being offered now then in the past. Even a small card room on the Las Vegas strip located inside Imperial Palace has Badugi in the rotation for their Sunday Night $3/$6 fixed limit mixed game. Fans of the game would love to see Badugi added to the World Series of Poker line-up of events. This includes poker pro Thang Luu.
Thang Luu is a legendary Omaha Hi/Lo specialist who plays heads up sit-and-goes online under the name Tata. He’s had one of the best runs in WSOP history which started with a third place NLHE finish in 2005, and a 9th place finish in 2006 in a NLHE event which set a record for entrants at 2891. His next success was an accomplishment for the ages as he finished runner up in a 2007 Omaha Hi/Lo Event, then came back the following year to win it, and in 2009 won the same event yet again. Despite being known as arguably the best Omaha Hi/Lo player in the world, Thang Luu claims his best game is not Omaha Hi/Lo but Badugi.
If you’re interested in seeing Badugi added into the line up of WSOP games, we suggest harassing WSOP commissioner Jeffery Pollack on twitter http://twitter.com/WSOPCommish and when the WSOP committee members are announced for 2010, harassing them as well. While this is a little tongue in cheek, there is a desire in the poker community for this game to be added to the rotation, so if anyone in power is reading this, let’s make it happen.