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Badugi Solver

Solve Badugi on your desktop: heads-up hands from the deal at fixed limit, every bet and all three draws, with the end of each line solved on its own and the last betting round solved exactly.

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  • Heads-uphands from the deal
  • Fixed limityour own blinds and limits
  • Exactlast betting round
  • 5 GBof RAM
Badugi heads-up: the big blind’s first draw after calling the button’s raise, by hand class — draw one 24%, two 54%, three 22%. A jack-high or worse Badugi breaks to draw one, three-card hands to an eight or better draw one, and two-card hands draw two. The strip shows the play before the draw giving up under 0.05 big bets per 100 hands.
Badugi: how many cards the big blind draws, by its best Badugi and the cards left over.

What you can solve

Four cards, four suits, three draws.

  • Whole hands from the deal Heads-up, with your own blinds and limits. Walk the hand round by round and draw by draw.
  • Each line’s end solved on its own From the betting after the second draw, the line you are on is solved again for the hands each seat brings to it.
  • Every draw, hand by hand At each draw, each hand’s draw is the one that wins it most against the other seat’s hands on the line.
  • The last round solved exactly After the third draw, the betting is solved exactly for the line you are on, hand by hand with every card counted.
  • Try a hand Type a hand to see how it plays at the decision on screen: its mix, what each play wins and the cards each draw keeps. After a draw, Threw counts the cards the seat threw as dead.
  • List and Classes Every hand by class with its frequency for each action, or a row a class. The strip above the play shows the hand so far, each draw included, and takes you back to any point.
  • Saved, on your machine Hands save and reopen like every other HydraSolver solve, while they solve too.
  • Chip EV, heads-up Draw games solve heads-up and count chips. Rake, side games and tournament settings do not apply to them.
  • Measured Heads-up, after the third draw, the most a perfect opponent can take is under 0.002% of the pot, checked by a separately written program. Read the proof

RAM

RAM by game.

What one solve of the whole hand needs at the bets the screen starts with, rounded up. Draw games solve heads-up.

GameWhole hand
Heads-up3-way
Badugi5 GB—

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License

One price. Everything included.

  • Single $899 · Dual $1,299One machine or two. Every game, every feature and every update for a year. No tiers, no add-ons.
  • 10-day trial · $150Try the full version, unrestricted, for 10 days. Upgrade to Single or Dual for the difference at any time. Start a trial
  • On your desktopRuns on your own Windows PC. Your hands, trees and solves stay on your computer.

Questions

Common questions.

What does it solve in Badugi?

Heads-up hands from the deal at fixed limit, with three draws. The hand with the most cards of different ranks and different suits wins, then the lowest of them, aces low.

Is it exact?

The last betting round is: after the third draw, the betting is solved exactly between the hands each seat brings to it, and the proof measures it. The rest of the hand is solved by self-play over sampled deals with similar hands grouped together; its accuracy is measured in play.

Does it solve three-handed?

No. Draw games solve heads-up.

How much RAM does it need?

About 5 GB at the bets the screen starts with. Draw games solve heads-up.

Is it finished?

It is in beta in HydraSolver: solving, reading and saving work, and it keeps improving with each release.

Does it run on Mac or Linux?

No. HydraSolver is a Windows desktop app: Windows 10 or Server 2016 and newer, 64-bit. You can rent a Windows server from us and connect by Remote Desktop.

What does it cost?

$899 for one machine or $1,299 for two, for a year. Every game, every feature and every update is included. A 10-day trial of the full version is $150. Pay by card or Bitcoin.

Is there a free trial?

You can try the full version of HydraSolver, unrestricted, for 10 days — just $150. The trial can be upgraded to Single or Dual for the difference at any time.

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