A5 Triple Draw Strategy

A-5 Triple Draw is one of those little known, less-played variations of Triple Draw lowball poker that most people get into because it’s fun and seems easy. You want the worst hand and you have three draws to catch it; seems easy enough. Except it isn’t, and once you’re well practiced in its intricacies you’ll be able to take fullest advantage of this deceptively difficult game and the typically weak players you will find at the tables. If you have ever played Holdem you have undoubtedly at one time or another faced a crazy player that raised every hand and just played terrible poker, but ended up winning.

Ace Five Triple Draw and 27 Triple Draw Lowball are much different then games like Holdem or Omaha because players must make important decisions throughout the game. In Holdem the only decisions you have to make are "bet, call, raise,fold". In Triple Draw you have to make complex choices with each of the three draws. Another difference between the two is that in Holdem a crappy hand like 5-6 has a 37.7% chance of beating a strong hand like A-K. If you are not using a solid A-5 Triple Draw strategy you have an extremely low chance at winning a hand and zero chance of winning a session.

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Choose Your Battles In A5 Triple Draw

The first step is to decide whether or not to play the hand in front of you. This decision is based on several factors, including (but not limited to) your table position, your hand, your chip stack relative to the other players and, in later rounds, the bet size relative to the pot and how many cards each player draws.

If you’re sitting in first or second position, you’re going to want a very strong starting hand and draw only one card, or none. Obviously, 6-high and 7-high hands are incredibly strong, but even a starting hand like K-8-5-3-2 has potential, and you’re going to want to bet it aggressively, not because of what you’re holding but to thin out the field of players behind you. If you’re going to draw, you want to draw against as few players as possible.

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In general, the later your position at the table, the more you can speculate with mediocre starting hands (or bluff with nothing). This is especially true of unusually tight or unusually loose tables. Extremely tight players (“rocks”) can be pushed off their hands pretty easily, making your bluffs more effective and profitable. Extremely loose players (“maniacs”) are usually fishing with less than nothing, making your decent drawing hands worth the risk as long as you can control the pot size.

As important as deciding when to play is, deciding when not to is equally so. Too often our egos trap us in a hand we’re destined to lose, or perhaps we simply underestimate the impact to our chip stack of losing that one last bet. Saving chips isn’t celebrated nearly as enthusiastically as winning chips, but a good fold is just as important as a good call or bet.

Ace To 5 Lowball Betting and Drawing Strategy

In A-5 Triple Draw, straights and flushes are ignored, so the only drawbacks that count against your hand are high cards and multiples of the same card (pairs, trips and quads). Because of this you can typically afford to speculate a little more than in most games, which translates into a slightly loose playing style. With so little going against you, it makes speculating a little easier and probable, but a speculative hand needs to be watched very carefully; if you’re not catching what you need or are facing heavy resistance, folding too early is far better than calling too long.

When you’re dealt a strong hand with one or two discards, you’re better off betting it aggressively rather than slow playing it to suck in other players, especially from early positions. This gives you the best chance of controlling the action, and you definitely want to control it if you’re drawing for three reasons: 1) You want to draw as cheaply as possible while making it expensive for someone else; 2) You want to build the pot in case you catch your hand without artificially inflating the pot odds; and 3) You want to leave folding as an option if it becomes necessary, like when you pair up on the last draw.

The chance of someone outdrawing you is too great to risk letting too many players in behind you cheaply. You can slow play a hand here and there to vary your table image, especially premium hands, but you’ll likely win more chips by being aggressive and winning showdowns against one or two players than you will by slow playing the whole table to the end. And the risk of losing to a suckout is far less as well, saving those precious chips.

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