5 Card Draw Sit N Go’s

Well over the weekend I was mucking around on the laptop and thought I’d play some poker. I have been playing pretty much nothing but No Limit Hold Em cash tables and doing fairly well but I thought I’d try something different for a change so I entered a one table Pot Limit 5 Card Draw Sit n Go.

Now I’ve only ever played one or two games of 5 Card Draw as it isn’t exactly the most entertaining of poker games. Anyway, the simplicity of the game, combined with the miniscule buy-in ($1+$0.10) ensured that regardless of my experience, I was a shot at turning a small profit.

The game consists of this: 5 cards to each player, a round of betting, discards (between 0 and 5 new cards to replace those thrown out) and then a final round of betting after which the best 5 card hand wins. Pretty straightforward really and the ease of the game meant I could enter a few of these straight away.

I won’t sit here and bore you with details of hands or anything because 5 Card Draw isn’t really spectator-friendly like Hold Em. The point of this post however is that out of the 6 Sit n Go’s I played I won 5 of them. Not exactly enough cash to be rolling in it but not bad for an afternoon’s poker without having to completely focus on the action.

So now I play Hold Em regularly, Omaha High/Low semi-regularly and 7 Card Stud now and again. Well add 5 Card Draw to the list. Next up is 2-7 Triple Draw!!!