Deuce-Seven
Lowball consists of 4 betting rounds and five cards
dealt face down to each player just as in 5 Card Draw.
However in Deuce-Seven Lowball you can draw three times
allowing four different bet sessions. One when you receive
your first for cards and one each time you draw. Your
goal in 2-7 Lowball is to make the lowest 5 cards you
can with no pairs, flushes, or straights. Ace counts
as the highest card, not a one. So the best possible
hand would be 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. You should notice that
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is not the best hand since that would
be a straight. All the straights and flushes and of
course straight flushes count against you so you can't
make any type of High Poker hand at all. If you end
up with and 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and someone else had the same
exact 5 cards but they are all hearts, they will lose
the hand by far since they have a flush and you have
an 8 high. Below is an example of an entire 2-7 Low
hand played from beginning to end.
EXAMPLE
HAND
| 1st
Round
Your
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Opponent's
View
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This
player dropped her Ace, Jack, and one of
her three's for her first draw. |
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2nd
Round
Now
the Seven helped her but the she drew another
Ace & another 8, so she discarded those. |
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3rd
Round
From
here she only had one draw left and the
only bad card in her hand was the King. |
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4th
and Final Round
Her
final hand was fairy decent since she
had no pair, no Ace, and everything was
lower than a 9.
8,
7, 6, 4, 3, or an 8-7 Low.
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