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Session
Per-game accuracy
Outs are counted exactly against the deck for each spot. In Stud & Razz, exposed cards are removed first — count your live outs. In Omaha, you must use exactly two hole cards. In 2-7, straights and flushes count against you (a pair always does).
Time Attack
Most correct outs in 3 minutes
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All games, random mix. Each correct answer is +1; a wrong answer just moves on. The clock never stops — type fast and use the number pad. Ties are broken by accuracy.
Reference
Reading the low: Ace-to-Five vs. Deuce-to-Seven
Every lowball and hi-lo split game scores the low hand with one of two systems. The fast rule: almost everything uses Ace-to-Five — the only exception is the Deuce-to-Seven (2-7) family. The two systems disagree on exactly two things: whether the ace is low, and whether straights/flushes hurt your low.
System 1 · the common one
Ace-to-Five (“California” / A-5)
| Rule | How it works |
|---|---|
| Ace | Plays LOW (counts as 1) |
| Straights | Ignored — don’t count against the low |
| Flushes | Ignored — don’t count against the low |
| Pairs | Hurt — you want five distinct ranks |
| Best low | A-2-3-4-5 — “the wheel”, a straight, still the nut low |
System 2 · the exception
Deuce-to-Seven (“Kansas City” / 2-7)
| Rule | How it works |
|---|---|
| Ace | Plays HIGH only — a bad low card |
| Straights | Count against you — they make a high hand |
| Flushes | Count against you — they make a high hand |
| Pairs | Hurt — you want five distinct ranks |
| Best low | 7-5-4-3-2 — not a straight, not one suit |
Cheat sheet
What actually changes between them
- The ace. A-5: ace is your best low card. 2-7: ace is your worst — it only counts high.
- Straights & flushes. A-5: they’re invisible to the low, so 4-5-6-7-8 and A-2-3-4-5 are perfectly good lows. 2-7: they’re high hands, so you must dodge them.
- Pairs hurt in both. A low is five cards of distinct ranks; pairing up kills it either way.
- “8-or-better” qualifier. In split games (Stud/Omaha Hi-Lo) the low only exists if you can make five distinct ranks all 8 or lower. Otherwise no one wins the low half. These are all A-5 games.
- Your understanding, confirmed: for every lowball variant except the 2-7 family, straights and flushes do not count against the low — and the ace plays low.
- Badugi is separate. It uses its own ranking — four cards of distinct rank and distinct suit, ace low — so it isn’t A-5 or 2-7. Badugi