Biggest non mainstream poker variant?

I would like to spend a little bit of time, once a week, learning another poker variant that isn't mainstream. Just to be clear, I'm excluding the following games in all variations: Hold'em, Omaha Hi.
I know Galfond also likes to play 2-7 triple draw, which might be a good option. Thoughts?

2-7 triple draw, 7 card stud add Razz seems to be most popular, as they even had WSOP bracelet events this year.

Badugi, 2-7td /sd nl , and from there you can learn badacey and baduecy as they are played in most mixes live

@ Defrag

Yea, good point.

@ RaSZi

I've never heard of badacey and baduecy before, thanks for the info.

Any thoughts on which of these games require the most skill?

13/9 card Chinese - skillgame!

Omaha8 is the next biggest game but its kind of boring. I suggest learning triple draw, it runs by itself often enough on stars and is part of the 8game mix.

On August 02 2012 10:59 NMcNasty wrote: Omaha8 is the next biggest game but its kind of boring. I suggest learning triple draw, it runs by itself often enough on stars and is part of the 8game mix.

Yea, was also gonna ask which one the games are fun to play.

Triple draw is a lot of fun. It goes a lot faster than badacey (split pot game between ace-5 and bagugi) and baduecey (split pot game between 2-7 and badugi) and it's always in mix games. Plus if you learn that one the rest comes kind of easy.

Played this the other weekend.

On August 06 2012 22:39 NewbSaibot wrote: Played this the other weekend.

Haha, I've heard 2-7 is like the Omaha of limit games.

Read up on the rules yesterday and played some micro stakes, looks like fun, I will be learning this on the side.

Is there any recommended reading? I've seen the sticky on 2+2 in "Draw and Other Poker" that has some interesting articles.

edit: I also see Cardrunners has some videos.

Negreanu actually has a very good chapter on it in SuperSystem2.

On August 07 2012 10:05 NMcNasty wrote: Negreanu actually has a very good chapter on in in SuperSystem2.

That's funny you should say that. I watched Triple Draw 101 on Cardrunners and he was saying that he thinks Negreanu was fishy in 2-7 triple draw, because in SSII he said it's ok to draw two on the last draw.

I've seen the cardrunners vids years ago but can't remember the details except that they were hilariously overproduced. I think they were geared more toward low stakes players where tight ABC poker is enough. I really haven't found anything I strongly disagree with in the Negreanu chapter, if anything it might be too conservative. On average drawing two on the end is a bad play, but there are plenty of situations in which its fine, in blind battles or when the pot is very large for example. It actually takes a bit of math homework to figure that sort of stuff out. Like pretty much all forms of poker, the higher stakes games are much more aggressive, so draws and calldowns that are pretty much unthinkable at the low stakes become necessary.