badugi and 2-7

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Do you keep the jack high badugi or try to improve your 2-7 hand, etc.

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Don't go keeping jack high badugis. You're vastly underestimating how the fifth card changes the hand distribution. The average winning badugi hand in a loose game should be something around a rough six.

The most interesting spot is what to do with a hand like 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].