Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit ($5/$10)

Hero ($258), Seat 4
BB ($274.50), Seat 5
UTG ($317), Seat 6
CO ($140), Seat 1
Button ($231), Seat 2

Button at Seat 2.
Hero posts $2. BB posts $5.

Hand: [7h 5s 2d 4c 6h] A pat 7. A real monster!

Round 1:

UTG calls. CO calls. Button calls. Hero raises. BB calls. UTG calls. CO calls. Button calls. ($50 in the pot)

Hero stands pat. BB takes 2. UTG takes 2. CO takes 2. Button takes 2.

Hand: [7h 5s 2d 4c 6h]

Round 2:

Hero bets. BB folds. UTG raises. CO calls. Button calls. Hero raises. UTG calls. CO calls. Button calls. ($110 in the pot)

Hero stands pat. UTG takes 1. CO takes 2. Button takes 1.

Hand: [7h 5s 2d 4c 6h]

Round 3:

Hero bets. UTG folds. CO calls. Button raises. Hero calls (The Doom Switch has been destroying me lately). CO calls. ($170 in the pot)

Hero stands pat. CO takes 2. Button stands pat.

Hand: [7h 5s 2d 4c 6h]

Round 4:
Hero checks. CO checks. Button bets. Hero calls. CO folds. ($190 in the pot)






CO shows 76532 :(

Five-way action, how many small cards could've possibly been live???

I dont really understand 2-7 tripledraw but from what i can see the only card he had you beat with is his 3 over your 4 kicker with all other cards same?

That prob has to be the closest win possible for him

Aaron, it is the worst hand that could've beat Bobby. It's not the only hand though.

In 2-7, top hands (ordered from best to worst) are...

23457
23467
23567
24567

So, Bobby had the 4th best hand, this other guy had the 3rd best hand.

Difference is...Bobby is betting, raising, and standing pat, and this other guy draws 2, draws 1, stands pat.

This happens all the time in 2-7 I would be more upset if CO was the one who showed the best hand (I'm guessing you meant BTN showed the winner considering in your hand history the CO folds). It sucks though either way to get a pat 7 and lose with it.

This happens all the time in 2-7

Not in a 5-way pot. It's much tougher to hit a draw, when so many of your outs (the small cards) are spoken for.

There are only 28 cards that are 8 or smaller (nobody keeps a 9 when they're drawing two). SEVENTEEN of them were kept before the first draw. It's likely that more went to the muck when people broke small pairs before the first draw.

The pool of small cards was much smaller than normal in this hand. That's what made it rough.

I dropped about $400 in that game (you know I'm getting murdered if I'm telling bad beat stories). I lost with a 7 more than once. But this one, where "all the babies were dead", was the cruelest cut.

Yea I didn't realy consider the 5 way pot so a lot of the small cards being dead.

2-7 triple draw is such a swingy game, it has to be the highest variance game there is.

I dropped about $400 in that game (you know I'm getting murdered if I'm telling bad beat stories). I lost with a 7 more than once.

I got it all back tonight! And then some. :)

I've made more 7's in an hour tonight, than I made in six hours last night--and I haven't lost with any of 'em this time. :cool:

2-7 triple draw is such a swingy game, it has to be the highest variance game there is.

I had heard that. But my opponents have been so clueless up to this point, that hasn't been a factor (until I jumped up to $5-10 last night).

I played a bit of this game afte reading this thread. I think I might be a fish in this game. Do I play the following hand poorly?
PF cold calling is clearly bad, please bear with my "play for fun" mindset on this game since I try this game for relaxing myself
And yes, Bobby you are always right, this is such a fun game :D

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1173560

Oh and the nuts in this game is so funny to look at :rolleyes:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1173569

That first hand: terrible play preflop (you should only draw three in this game if you get caught blind stealing, or if you're defending your blind against an obvious steal attempt).

But once you catch that 7642x, and the pot gets huge, you're tied on from that point.

You took a lot of punishment on the turn to get there. Again, the pot is gi-normous, and it's not like you called three bets cold, so I don't have a problem with the way you played the turn.

You've GOTTA put one raise in on the river. You made #2. Why draw to it, if you won't bet it when you catch it? I wouldn't 3-bet or cap it, but I'd try one raise. When the pot is that gigantic, you'll get paid off by a lot of hands.

This was a very a-typical hand. This was not your run-of-the-mill 3-draw hand.

And you know that was me in the 3-seat, right?

Second hand: Wow, talk about an a-typical hand! Guy makes #3 before the last draw, and he's in THIRD PLACE??? And he knows it: "let's check it down", lol.

Only play you made here that I didn't like was the slow-play after the first draw. There's no point in saying, "Call...I'm pat." The "call" doesn't deceive anybody if you immediately rap pat, so you might as well raise there.

Now I look like a complete newbie. I was trying to open this thread and check if my hand was #2 or #3. However, I was worried that I would time out and lose that huge pot so I just called. I didn't notice you were in that game too. Your handle is? (If you don't mind me asking :) )

Oh I didn't read your line carefully. Now I know which one is you. I will say HI next time I see you in "your" game :D

Now I look like a complete newbie. I was trying to open this thread and check if my hand was #2 or #3.

The easiest way to quickly determine the strength of a pat 7, is to subtract whatever card you're missing from 7:

75432 = no 6. 7-6=1, or #1

76542 = no 3. 7-3=4, or #4

Get it?