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The Basics of Badugi
Online games have brought poker to the masses and popularity is at an all time high. This has in turn lead to the popularity of previously little known variations such as Badugi to be searched out and found as people look for new games.
Badugi is a game for 2 up to 6 players and the game is a low card game, getting used to this can be strange at first especially if you have been used to playing the more popular games such as holdem which is a high card game. As well as been a low card game Badugi is also a draw game, meaning as the game is played out, players have the opportunity to exchange some of their cards with cards from the pack. To begin a game the player will have to make a choice of table to play at, the table can be one of three kinds, limit, pot limit or half pot limit; this refers to the betting structure of the game.
Players receive 4 cards face down from the dealer at the start of each hand. The aim of the game is to have 4 cards that are neither paired or suited, share the same number or suit, ideally the numbers will also be as low as possible. An example of one of the best possible hands would be 4 of H, 3 of C, 2 of S, A of D. If a player has a hand like this it is called by the same name as the game, the Badugi hand.
There are 3 rounds or draws during which you have the option to call/check, raise or fold just as in any other game of poker. You also have the opportunity to replace cards during each draw. Get rid of any matched cards and receive new cards from the stack. If ever player draws cards and the deck runs out of cards, usually the discarded cards are re shuffled and used again.
The pre draw round starts with the player to the left of the big blind, if no blinds the dealer, and goes clockwise. Big Blind is usually placed by the player to the left of the small blind and is usually the size of the minimum bet. The small blind is placed by the player to the left of the dealer and is half the size of the big blind.
Those still remaining at the end having not folded reveal their cards in the showdown. Any paired cards left in the hand at showdown must be discarded.
What Makes A Good Betting System
If you could discover a constant and profitable betting method that would run constantly forever, surely that would be a licence to print money – Right?
In my view, thriving betting systems like that simply don’t exist. Why? – Because there are merely so many things constantly changing all of the time, plus many things completely out of our control.
Take football betting as an illustration: player’s vary – manager’s change – teams get promoted etc, and so on. The goal posts are constantly moving and changing all of the time – it merely doesnt make logic to expect every method used for gambling to remain being profitable for years to come devoid of a little tuning and adjustment from time to time.
A betting method that produces the qualifying bets is simply a series of rules to go along with. Therefore, every logic used is simply as sound as the rationale behind the selection process – that’s why I believe in exploiting each and every workable twist to the fullest amount, when it really comes down to using and updating every technique to its absolute greatest capability. The final outcome produces a fully optimised betting method with a solitary target in mind – better overall profits in support of all its users.
What’s vital? First of all, every method used in favor of betting must adopt a highly profitable and unique method. All system qualifiers must maintain a proven long-term track history of profitability and preceding results, but more specifically all current trends must be meticulously monitored as well, creating the ultimate profitable advantage for you to fully exploit.
The betting method used must have been stringently tested, spanning several years of accurate results, using database and spreadsheet analysis to identify simply the very top highly profitable trends – this study is ongoing.
The conundrum with the majority of betting systems is that they quite simply don’t control sufficient data to apply the regular and disciplined analysis necessary. Furthermore, all data needs to be accurate and applied in excess of many years of results and study.
Long period accurate and dependable data will repeatedly create the opportunity to evaluate an exceptionally large variety of diverse scenarios whilst applying stability and control right through the analysis. All of these factors will result in a much better method used for betting that ought to provide you with the level of profits necessary.
I look at it this way – each single year that passes an additional group of highly accurate results are produced. This has the knock-on effect of making the overall method that much better. Analysing 10 years results will be more accurate than analysing 9 years, 15 years more accurate than 10, and so on. Therefore, each single year that passes the method must be converted into that much better optimised for profit.
I believe that there is no such occurrence as a perfect betting method, or a method of betting that will keep on to run forever whilst remaining highly profitable. Human intervention is vital from time to time, to correct and fine-tune the selection process. Thereby, making unquestionably certain that the rules of the method are based specifically on current trends, collectively with complete analysis of proven long-term results – in my view this is the single route to sustaining profitability whilst using every betting method.
-Lawrence Taylor-