Badugi resources online?

[Micturition Man]

Are there any good articles on badugi strategy by people who know what they are talking about?

It seems like the fundamentals of this game are much less well-established than, for example, 2-7 TD. There is a great disparity in predraw play even among competent players.

[2461Badugi]

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Are there any good articles on badugi strategy by people who know what they are talking about?


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Deathdonkey has a superbasic article, which I think is at deucescracked. I think that's about it.

What sort of advice do you want? I'd be willing to write up an article if I thought it would be interesting. Badugi tends to be either awfully straightforward or entirely meta, though.

[Murakawa]

I think you should write and article because I know that I would read it!

[Micturition Man]

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Are there any good articles on badugi strategy by people who know what they are talking about?


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Deathdonkey has a superbasic article, which I think is at deucescracked. I think that's about it.

What sort of advice do you want? I'd be willing to write up an article if I thought it would be interesting. Badugi tends to be either awfully straightforward or entirely meta, though.

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Right now what I am most interested in is preflop opening and 3-betting standards by position... really the core of any limit poker game.

For example in what situations do you play 2 card hands?

(But don't limit yourself to this topic if you feel like expanding.)

[Bedz]

Can someone link to the first article?

[DegenerateRambler]

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Can someone link to the first article?

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http://deathdonkey.com/?p=78 as found in the FAQ of this forum...

[skillzilla]

is it possible to play badugi online?

[Micturition Man]

Just as a follow up I have been training my badugi intuition a bit by setting up 8-handed O8 games in the Wilson software and mentally playing them out as if they were badugi.

My biggest conclusion is that 2 card hands are far more playable than I thought.

It's just a guess but I think you should start open-raising 2 card hands as early as 3-off the button (definitely 2-off the button).

Decent 3-card hands and pat badugis are just too rare to wait for outside the earliest positions.

I also was reminded of just how bad rough 3-card hands compared to say 2 cards to a wheel.

I think a smooth 3-card 6 like 642 is playable from maybe the cut-off, but it seems to be inferior to something like 32.

(Although it gains a little bluff equity when someone defends in a blind with 32, doesn't improve on the first draw, and then folds assuming he's up against an a34 type hand.)

These are just tentative conclusions, I could be way off.

[DegenerateRambler]

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is it possible to play badugi online?

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Carbon Poker has it, but from what I've seen so far there are hardly any players.

[DeathDonkey]

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Just as a follow up I have been training my badugi intuition a bit by setting up 8-handed O8 games in the Wilson software and mentally playing them out as if they were badugi.

My biggest conclusion is that 2 card hands are far more playable than I thought.

It's just a guess but I think you should start open-raising 2 card hands as early as 3-off the button (definitely 2-off the button).

Decent 3-card hands and pat badugis are just too rare to wait for outside the earliest positions.

I also was reminded of just how bad rough 3-card hands compared to say 2 cards to a wheel.

I think a smooth 3-card 6 like 642 is playable from maybe the cut-off, but it seems to be inferior to something like 32.

(Although it gains a little bluff equity when someone defends in a blind with 32, doesn't improve on the first draw, and then folds assuming he's up against an a34 type hand.)

These are just tentative conclusions, I could be way off.

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I agree with basically all this and feel people way overvalue mediocre 3 card hands and undervalue 2 to a wheel. One conclusion I've made that I think people may disagree with is in early position open limping is ok. I feel the game is similar to O/8 in that there are "pull" hands and "push" hands. You don't mind being in a large multiway pot with A2xy and improving or getting out cheaply.

-DeathDonkey