2-7 Triple Draw Guide For 8-Game Mix Players

8-Game Mix has grown to become one of the most popular mixed poker games. Typically with poker variants, such as H.O.R.S.E, the “weak game” for most players is one of the 7 Card Stud variants such as Razz. In 8-Game Mix players are faced with a totally new challenge, 2-7 Triple Draw. I’ve played well over 50,000 hands of 8 Game Poker at Pokerstars and I can say with absolute certainty that 27 Triple Draw is the new universal “weak game” these days. Months ago I added some 2-7 Triple Draw articles onto this site and have received solid feedback on it but I wanted to do a little more so I created a website specifically dedicated to 2-7 Triple Draw.

The website is: http://www.2-7tripledraw.com/

Right now it is kind of thread bare in regards to content but it does feature the basics:

• 2-7 Triple Draw rules
• 2-7 Triple Draw strategy – This article took me over an hour to write. Its not that I don’t understand 2-7 Triple Draw, its just that it is a very complex game to perfect on paper if you understand me.  In Hold’em for example you can basically base your hand selection off of one of the many charts found online. This wouldn’t be a very good strategy but then again it wouldn’t be very bad. For 2-7 Triple Draw it is impossible to set a universal criteria for starting hands. This article just contains some basic concepts but it will set you on the right path.

Why Is Mastering  2-7 Triple Draw So Important?

Two years ago H.O.R.S.E poker was the #1 mixed poker game. These days though it is 8-Game Mix. The 7 other games are just a mixed of the standard poker games. 2-7 Triple Draw is truly the odd ball in the mix. Draw poker games in general are uncommon online, except at Stars, but very common at home games. 2-7 Triple Draw isn’t one of the draw poker games I played at home though and I’m sure that is true for most of you as well.

2-7 Triple Draw is basically just a lowball version of 5 Card Draw with the following exceptions:

• Aces are high
• Straights & flushes count
• There are THREE draws!

Players that have experience with 5 Card Draw and lowball games in general tend to have a false sense of “skill” when it comes to 2-7 Triple Draw. This equates to a lot of loose action during the 27 TD rotation. Here are a few examples of terrible play that I see every session:

• A player raising, re-raising or even triple raising pre-draw…and than drawing 2.
• Players that call the blind or even a raise and draw 4.
• Players that show an Ace high hand (or a straight/flush) and complain when they lose. I hear “WTF…how did you beat me, I had a lower hand” all the time.
• Players that don’t know its a lowball game. This isn’t as common as it once was but it still happens every now and then.
• Players that call every bet and then fold, even though the other player drew 1 also,  after the last draw because they got a high card. 2-7 Triple Draw odds and pot odds might be a bit foreign to most people but if you do some simple math you will play a lot better.

So anyway, as you can see there is a lot of easy money to be won during those 6 hands of 2-7  Triple Draw and most of you mixed game players are not taking advantage of it. The regular Triple Draw players haven’t really been playing 8-Game because of the huge influx of fish they can feed on at the 2-7 Triple Draw ring tables. It would also be a lot harder for them to master the other games than it would be for you to master 27TD.