Tournament Details
- Event Date: April 26th, 2026
- Start Time: 12:00 pm
- Location: Cat’s Paw in Bozeman, MT
- Buy-in: $80 (includes additional shell)
- Format: Pot Limit Badeucy
- Starting Chips: 15,000 + 1 additional 15K reload shell
- Level Duration: 15 minutes/20 minutes
- Late Registration: 6th level ~1:45PM
- Table Max: 6 handed
Basic Rundown
Split Pot Game: Half the pot is awarded to the best 2-7 lowball hand. The other half of the pot is awarded to the best Badugi.
ACES PLAY HIGH IN BOTH GAMES
Each player starts with 5 cards and will have three opportunities to discard and draw new cards to make the lowest possible hand simultaneously for both the 5-card 2-7 hand as well as the 4-card Badugi. There are four betting rounds: before the first draw and after each draw then showdown.
In deuce-to-seven lowball (sometimes known as Kansas City lowball), in most respects, the worst conventional poker hand wins. Straights and flushes count against you, crippling the value of a hand. The ace is used only as a high card. Therefore, the best hand is 7-5-4-3-2, not all of the same suit. The hand 5 4 3 2 A is not considered to be a straight, but an ace-5 high, so it beats other ace-high hands and pairs, but loses to king-high. A pair of aces is the highest pair, so it loses to any other pair.
Badugi is a 4-Card Lowball Draw Game.
Each Player starts with 4 cards down and the object of the game is to get the lowest 4 cards all unique in rank and suit.
Five, Four, Three, Two of all Different Suits is the best possible hand
Any 4 card “Badugi” beats a 3 card hand.
Example: K,7,5,2 of all different suits is better than 5,4,3,2 that only has 3 unique suits. (it would also be better than a hand containing all different suits but paired such as 4d,3c,2s,2h)
The best hand both ways would be 7-5-4-3-2 with the 5-4-3-2 all being different suits
Structure & Payouts
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