Next week, No Big Deal Poker is handing the tables over to the Swedish poker community Pokerlabbet for a couple of tournaments aimed at players who want to try something outside the usual Hold’em and Omaha rotation.
The Swedish poker community, led by Thony Sjölund and Joel Fritz, will host trial tournaments in both 2 to 7 Single Draw and 2 to 7 Triple Draw on NBDP.
The idea is simple. Come along, play the games, learn the basics and hopefully discover a new favourite format.
Tournament setup
Both tournaments are built to be quick, accessible and easy to jump into. The buy in is just 100 coins, with 5 minute levels and a 5,000 starting stack, giving players enough room to get a proper feel for the game without turning the session into an all night grind.
Need coins before the tournament? You can buy them directly from the Store inside the NBDP client.
Tuesday and Thursday 19.00CET , welcome to join!
What is 2-7 Single Draw?
In 2-7 Single Draw, the aim is to make the lowest possible five card hand.
Unlike traditional lowball formats, straights and flushes count against you and aces are always high. That means the best possible hand is:
7 5 4 3 2.
Players receive five cards and have one opportunity to discard any number of them and draw replacements before the final betting round.
It is a simple format to understand, but hand selection, position, bluffing and knowing when to stand pat create plenty of strategic depth.
What is 2-7 Triple Draw?
Triple Draw uses the same hand rankings, but players get three separate drawing rounds instead of one.
After each draw there is another betting round, creating far more opportunities to improve a hand, apply pressure or work out what an opponent is trying to make.
It is one of poker’s classic mixed game formats and regularly appears in major championship series around the world.
It is also a game that becomes much easier to understand once you actually sit down and play a few hands.
Read up on our 2-7 Draw rules and join us next week.
Pokerlabbet brings draw poker to NBDP
Pokerlabbet has built its community around poker discussion, strategy and the less conventional corners of the game. That makes 2 to 7 draw a natural fit.
Thony Sjölund and Joel Fritz will be joining the NBDP community for the sessions and helping introduce players to two formats that many have seen played at major live festivals but may never have tried themselves.
These are very much trial tournaments. You do not need to be an experienced mixed game player and you certainly do not need to know every strategy concept before sitting down.
Learn by playing.
Try something different
The Pokerlabbet tournaments are part of what NBDP is supposed to be about. Poker does not have to mean playing the same format every night.
These events give the community a chance to experiment with two proper poker formats in a relaxed environment where learning the game is part of the point.
If you have always looked at a 2 to 7 tournament in a schedule and wondered what on earth everyone is doing, this is your chance to find out.
Join Thony Sjölund, Joel Fritz and the Pokerlabbet community on NBDP next week and give draw poker a shot.
You might arrive to learn the rules.
You might leave looking for the next game.
