Badugi Rules
The goal of this game is to create the best Badugi hand, which is comprised of a hand holding each of the four different suits (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades) and four unique card ranks. Aces are played as low, kings as high. 432A of four different suits, the wheel, is the best possible hand. Traditional poker hand rankings are discarded entirely. The best hands are Badugis (hands with four different suits and four unique cards – no pairs), followed by 3-card hands (a hand with three different suits, or four different suits but a paired number, such as 663A), 2-card hands, and lastly the uncommon and completely useless 1-card hands (four cards of the same suit or four of a kind – KKKK is the worst hand possible in Badugi). Paired cards are essentially treated as dead. A♠2♥2♣7♦, for example, is called a three-card 72A. If two of a specific suit are found, such as 3♠5♥7♥J♣, the higher card is ignored. This hand would be called a three-card J53. Hands are evaluated from the highes...