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Badoogie

Badoogie is by far the strangest game to explain, and is not really even a Poker Game because you never end up using 5 cards, however this is a new game being played in the poker rooms of Las Vegas so we have included it in our list. Badoogie consists of 4 betting rounds total begining with only FOUR cards dealt face down to each player just as in 5 Card Draw. However in Badoogie you can draw three times which allow for four different bet sessions. One when you receive your first four cards and one each time you draw. Badoogie is a lowball only game with your goal being an Ace, 2, 3, 4 with all four suites being different. So straights and Aces don't hurt you in this game but pairs and flushes do. You want to have no pairs and no 2 cards with the same suite in your hand if possible.Any hand with no pair and 4 different suits is called a "Four Card Badoogie". So a hand with 2,2,3,4 even with all 4 different suits would be called a "Three Card Badoogie", and would lose to ANY four card Badoogie....even A, K , Q, J multicolored.

So any Four card Badoogie beats any 3 card Badoogie which beats and 2 card Badoogie, which

would be like 2,2,3,3 multicolored. This hand is only a 2 card Badoogie because only 2 of the cards are not pairs even though all four suits are different. This hand can only beat a worse 2 card Badoogie hand like 5,5,7,7 multicolored or ANY 1 card badoogie hand which would be and for card flush or any 4 of a kind.

Not that anyone would play these hands but just you can understand the game: A four card flush or straight flush like 7,8,9,10 of hearts would be considered a 1 card Badoogie with the highest card being the Ten, but this hand would still beat the 1 card Badoogie hand of four Jacks since the Ten low is lower that a Jack low.

 

EXAMPLE HAND

1st Round

Your View.

Opponent's View
This player decided to play these first four cards: Ace, Jack, and a pair of threes. On his first draw he dropped the Jack but also the 3 of hearts since his Ace was a heart.

2nd Round

Now the Eight of clubs helped him since it was failrly low but of a non matching suite. But the Ace paired him so he discarded the Ace for his seconf draw.

Now there was only 1 draw left and the only bad card in his hand was the six. Even though the six was a good low card it was a heart like the Ace giving this player only a "Three Card Badoogie" at this point, so he decided to discard the six here. This was pretty risky since the only way he could improve his hand to a "Four Card Badoogie" was to get a spade which didn't match any of his cards.

3rd Round

This player drew a very lucky card on his last draw. The nine of spades gave him a "Four Card Badoogie" nine high.

4th and Final Round

 
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