Readers will only find a new online game called Badugi Poker on Tribeca Tables’ sites, we’re informed in a press release from the turnkey poker provider this week.
Badugi is an Oriental poker game-style which has been sweeping the offline world and is now being made available to online pokerheads, too.
“Players are always looking for something new,” says Steve Cook from Tribeca Tables. “Badugi Poker is a game of skill and there’s no doubt it is going to create a great deal of interest on the net. Because a lot of players will be new to Badugi, it is going to offer a level playing field. Everyone will have a chance!”
Badugi Poker is very popular in the Far East, particularly in South Korea, but is also gaining ground in the US, where some Californian based casinos hold live Badugi tournaments. It is a fascinating game, said to have originated in Korea where for many years it was known as Paduki in both single-draw and triple-draw versions.
In key US cities predominantly where there are large Korean communities, Badugi is a long-standing fave.
Poker legend Doyle Brunson, who endorses one of Tribeca’s leading poker rooms said, “Badugi is the game of the future. It is more interesting and complex than most poker games and I enjoy it very much. We’re very excited to be launching Badugi at Doyles Room.com”.
Mike Caro, known as ‘The Mad Genius of Poker’ added, “The first time I played Badugi, my pulse was racing and that’s unusual for me. This poker game is aggravating, exciting, exasperating, and exhilarating. And then you play the next 10 minutes! You get four cards and you draw three times. You don’t want high ranks. You don’t want pairs. You don’t want matching suits. That’s it! That’s all there is to Badugi, other than the intrigue that accompanies that simple, devious set of rules”.
So what is Badugi? It’s a triple draw lowball variety of poker. Each player is dealt 4 cards and they must make their lowest possible hand over 3 draws. Players exchange higher rank cards with the dealer for lower cards if possible. It is a lowball game where Ace is low and therefore the best possible hand is A234 in all different suits.
Tribeca is making their Badugi available as a limit game, a pot limit game and a half pot limit game and will have full variety of stakes from play games to $1/$2 games.
Tribeca’s network boasts over 100 poker rooms, including Paddy Power, Blue Square, Victor Chandler, Golden Palace, Doyles Room, G-Fed Games, BETonSPORTS and Poker In Europe.