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Lowball poker is a type of poker sometimes called as ‘low poker’ unlike the high hand games, this game considers the person with the lowest hand to be the winner. Low value wins in this game.

Lowball poker games are mainly differentiated from one another by:

• Aces being considered as high
• Aces being considered as low
• Aces being considered as high/low
• How do straights and flushes influence the ranking of the hand.

The wide varieties of lowball games are:

* Ace-to-five low: This is the most common type. A wheel is 5-4-3-2-A which is the lowest probable hand. Straights and flushes are immaterial. Aces are low.

* Ace-to-six low: The lowest possible hand is 6-4-3-2-A and called as 6-4 low. Here straights and flushes are calculated as high hands and aces are low.

* Deuce-to-seven low: It is just opposite to the high hand poker which is called 7-5 low and the lowest probable hand is 7-5-4-3-2. But here aces are high and as in 6-4 low, straight and flushes calculated as high hands. A-5-4-3-2 is not a straight because aces are high and they are simply ace-high no pair.

* Deuce-to-six low: It is called 6-5 low which is mostly unused. Here also Aces are high. and straights and flushes are unnoticed.

A few examples of lowball poker games are:

* California Lowball: Draw Poker played with A-5 ranking, commonly with limit betting.

* Kansas City Lowball: Draw Poker played with 2-7 ranking, commonly played no-limit.

* Razz: Seven-card Stud, A-5 ranking.

* Triple Draw: Draw Poker with three drawing rounds, played limit (or rarely pot-limit), with moreover A-5 or 2-7 ranking.

* London Lowball: Seven-card stud with A-6 ranking and pot-limit betting.