2-7 Triple Draw Poker Rules
1. What is 2-7 Triple Draw?
2-7 Triple Draw is a five-card lowball draw variant. Each player 🍊 is dealt five cards and try to make the lowest possible five-card hand. Aces are high in 2-7 Triple Draw.
Here 🍊 we go over the poker rules for 2-7 Triple Draw.
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2. How to Play 2-7 Triple Draw
There are four rounds of 🍊 betting and three draws. After each round of betting, players choose how many cards they want to discard, anywhere from 🍊 0 to 5, and the dealer deals them replacement cards.
After the third and final draw there is one last round 🍊 of betting. A dealer button determines the order of betting and discarding.
3. 2-7 Triple Draw Strategy
There is plenty of 2-7 🍊 Triple Draw strategy available on the PokerNews website. Here are some of our favorites:
4. 2-7 Triple Draw Hand Rankings
Because you 🍊 are trying to make the lowest possible hand, straights and flushes count against you. This means that 6x5x4x3x2x, for example, 🍊 is a very bad hand. It is not considered a 6-low. It is a straight and is therefore worse than 🍊 holding AKQJ9.
The best possible hand you can make is 7x5x4x3x2x with no flush. This hand is called a wheel or 🍊 Number 1. The next best hand is 7x6x4x3x2x, again with no flush. This hand is often referred to as Number 🍊 2. Likewise, 7x6x5x3x2x is referred to as Number 3 and so on.
Because Aces play for high Ax5x4x3x2x is not a 🍊 straight. It is the best possible Ace-low you can make-also called the Nut Ace. 8x5x4x3x2x is the Nut 8 or 🍊 Eight-Perfect. 9x5x4x3x2x is the Nut 9 or Nine-Perfect and so on.
AxKxQxJx9x is the worst possible unpaired hand you can make, 🍊 since your goal is to make a low hand. 2x2x5x4x3x would be the next best hand after that.
The worst hand 🍊 you can hold in this game is a Royal Flush. Trips are worse than pairs. Straights are worse than pairs 🍊 and trips. Flushes are worse than straights. And full houses are worse than flushes. So, the hand rankings are the 🍊 inverse of the hand rankings in a regular high game.
Here are the top ten best hands in 2-7 Triple Draw:
Rank 🍊 Hand Nickname 1 7-5-4-3-2 Wheel, Number 1 2 7-6-4-3-2 Number 2 3 7-6-5-3-2 4 7-6-5-4-2 5 8-5-4-3-2 Nut Eight, Eight 🍊 Perfect 6 8-6-4-3-2 Eighty-Six Smooth 7 8-6-5-3-2 8 8-6-5-4-2 9 8-6-5-4-3 10 8-7-4-3-2 Eight-Seven Smooth
5. Difference Between Perfect, Smooth and 🍊 Rough in 2-7 Triple Draw
You will often hear 2-7 Lowball Draw players refer to hands as either perfect, smooth or 🍊 rough. But what do these terms mean?
Perfect
When a player describes their hand as perfect they mean that they are making 🍊 the lowest possible hand for their highest card. Let us explain.
If someone announced 'Ten Perfect' this would be they held 🍊 a 10x along with 5x4x3x2x, making it the best ten they could make. The next best hand would be the 🍊 worst nine. Similarly, if someone declared 'Nine Perfect' they would hold the best possible nine 9x5x4x3x2x
This is usually used for 🍊 any perfect hand apart from 7x5x4x3x2x where a player would declare 'Wheel' or 'Number 1'.
Smooth
Smooth refers to having a very 🍊 good low end of your hand. For example, a player might say that they hold an 'Eighty-Six Smooth'. This would 🍊 refer to a player holding 8x6x along with 4x3x2x.
Similarly, someone could announce a 'Ten-Eight Smooth' which would be 10x8x along 🍊 with 4x3x2x - the best bottom end of a ten.
Rough
A rough hand is the opposite of a smooth hand, and 🍊 refers to when a player has a bad high-end of their hand. For example, a player might say that they 🍊 hold a 'Rough Nine' where their hand is 9x8x7x4x2x. This would indicate that their Nine wasn't a particularly good one.
6. 🍊 2-7 Triple Draw at the WSOP
Whereas 2-7 Single Draw first appeared at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 1973, 🍊 2-7 Triple Draw didn't appear on the WSOP schedule until 2007 when aR$1,000 Rebuy event was added.
The buy-in increased toR$2,500 🍊 from 2008-13, before in 2014 increasing again toR$10,000 with the introduction of the 2-7 Triple Draw Championship. 2014 also saw 🍊 the introduction of aR$1,500 buy-in 2-7 Triple Draw Event.
WSOP 2-7 Triple Draw Championship 2007-19
Year Buy-in Entries Prizepool Winner Payout (USD) 🍊 2024R$10,000 100R$940,000 Luke SchwartzR$273,336 2024R$10,000 109R$1,024,600 Nicholas SeikenR$287,987 2024R$10,000 80R$752,000 Ben YuR$232,738 2024R$10,000 125R$1,175,000 John HenniganR$320,103 2024R$10,000 109R$1,024,600 Tuan LeR$322,756 🍊 2014R$10,000 120R$1,128,000 Tuan LeR$355,324 2013R$2,500 282R$641,550 Eli ElezraR$173,236 2012R$2,500 228R$518,700 Randy OhelR$145,247 2011R$2,500 309R$702,975 Leonard MartinR$189,818 2010R$2,500 291R$669,300 Peter GelencserR$180,730 🍊 2009R$2,500 257R$593,400 Abe MosseriR$165,521 2008R$2,500 238R$547,400 John PhanR$151,896 2007R$1,000+R 209R$721,804 Rafi AmitR$227,005
WSOPR$1,500 2-7 Triple Draw 2014-19
Year Buy-in Entries Prizepool Winner 🍊 Payout (USD) 2024R$1,500 467R$630,450 Robert CampbellR$144,027 2024R$1,500 356R$480,600 Hanh TranR$117,282 2024R$1,500 326R$440,100 Brian BrubakerR$109,967 2024R$1,500 358R$483,300 Andrey ZaichenkoR$117,947 2024R$1,500 388R$523,800 🍊 Benny GlaserR$136,215 2014R$1,500 348R$469,800 Todd BuiR$124,510
What happens when there are not enough cards to complete the draw? When this happens, 🍊 the muck has to be reshuffled and the draw is completed after the reshuffle.
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