Most qualifying cards wins first, then the lower ranked hand.
Poker room / CLUB FORMAT 17Advanced
Badugi
Four low cards, four suits, no matching ranks.
How to play
- 01
Deal four private cards each. Allow three draw rounds, replacing any number of cards at each draw.
- 02
Build the largest subset with different ranks and different suits. A four-card qualifying hand is a badugi; aces are low.
- 03
Any four-card badugi beats any three-card hand; three beats two; two beats one. Within the same card count, compare highest card downward and favor lower cards.
- 04
A-2-3-4 in four different suits is best. Club quick play omits betting; handle deck exhaustion as in Triple Draw.
Equal qualifying hands push; replay.
Standard five-card high-poker rankings
Royal flush → straight flush → four of a kind → full house → flush → straight → three of a kind → two pair → one pair → high card.
Compare the rank of the made combination first, then kickers from highest downward. Suits are equal. Aces can be high or low in a straight, but cannot wrap around. Short Deck, lowball, Three Card Poker, Four Card Poker and Poker Dice use their own rankings.
AFTER THE GAME
Cards down. Phones up.
The winner proposes the agreed collaboration share on the loser’s first qualifying prospect. Both call counters start at zero. The loser can cancel the proposed split by completing the agreed redemption challenge before its cutoff. The actual work and contribution still determine earned credit.
Read the challenge and redemption rules ↗Underlying game reference: Read the standard-game reference ↗. This club guide defines its own simplified format; the reference does not endorse the club.
