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Differences between Mainstream and Badugi poker
Poker is one of the most popular card game in the world whether offline or online. Those who enjoy playing casino games will mostly go for one of the poker variations like badugi poker along with other games. A conventional poker game is played with five cards where the player tries to make the best hand to win. The card values of poker are more or less according to face value of the cards. Ace is the highest card in any form of poker. King is the next and Queen is bigger than Jack. In poker you don’t need to count the value of the cards. The hand is decided by seeing what cards are in one hand in compared to others. The same suit carries higher value than cards of different suit and straight five cards are considered to be high cards.
In conventional poker the dealing of cards have great importance. Some games like Texas Holdem Poker, Omaha poker, pineapple poker has shared cards on the table. Here you will get your individual cards and there will be community cards which will be dealt according to predetermined fashion. Betting is done after initial round and after each dealing round. Here the players have to make best hand of five cards from all the cards that are dealt. Another conventional variation of poker is the stud poker and its variations. Here the cards are dealt individually and no community cards are there. The players will expose some cards and keep some cards hidden. Here too betting is done after each dealing round.
There are also some conventional draw poker games and with five cards. The difference between Badugi poker and conventional poker is that:
- Firstly Badugi is played with four cards.
- Secondly though card values remain the same the worst hands win. For example a hand with four different suits in Badugi is a winner than the one with same suit. In all conventional poker same suit wins.
- Also pairs, three of a kind which are supposed to be high cards in conventional games are considered to be worst cards in Badugi.
- A hand with off suit and nothing higher than seven have chance of winning in Badugi where as in conventional poker it would be considered as lowest cards.
- In Badugi poker you can also draw cards to improve your hand.
- An off suit hand with straight low cards are considered to be best hand. For example off suit ace, two, three, four is a winning hand.
- Ace has the lowest value unlike conventional poker.
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