The No-Frills Easy Guide to Badugi Rules and Strategy

 

Badugi, also known as Padooki among other names (Korean for “spotted dog”), is a very unique variant of lowball poker. It is most often found in mixed games, though often played on its own in private games, high limit Las Vegas games, and tournaments. The objective of Badugi is to achieve the lowest possible hand using four cards and all four suits.

The game plays best with six to eight players. Initially, the game looks similar to Hold’em in that there is a button, a small blind, and a big blind (in limit and pot limit variants of the game). However, the similarities mostly end here. Badugi is a draw game, most closely resembling 5-Card Draw and 2-7 Triple Draw.바둑이사이트

The game is traditionally played in fixed limit format, however in tournaments and sit-and-goes, the game can also be played in half-pot limit and pot limit formats. This game is traditionally almost never played in no limit due to the structure of the game.