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Badugi
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Wildly popular in Asia, (play now) especially Korea and China, our Chinese and Korean friends taught us the rules and fun of playing Badugi, and we, at Super Game have enjoyed it so much, and at times, even more than Poker itself! |
Badugi is a four card lowball poker game where you must try to have one card of each suit, and no pairs. If you are holding four different cards of four different suits then you are holding a Badugi!
Badugi betting structure is aggressive fun! The limit for the first two rounds of betting is called a small bet,
while the limit for the third and fourth betting rounds is called a big bet and is generally double the small bet.
Badugi uses the same blind structure of other poker games, with the two players to the left of the dealer paying the
small and the big blind respectively.
Each player is dealt four cards and play begins with the player on the left of the big blind and continues in a clockwise direction. Once all players have acted, all players remaining in the hand can then discard any number of cards in their hand, and be dealt new cards. Players can of course keep all their cards in any round if they are confident of the cards they hold. If a player draws no cards in one round they can still draw in subsequent rounds if they feel they need to improve their hand.
After the first round, players again have three options, they can check, bet or fold. If 1 player bets all other players have to equal that bet amount or fold before the next draw takes place. There is then a fourth betting round that is followed by a final draw. After the final draw there is a final betting round that is followed by a showdown.
At the showdown the player with the lowest Badugi wins, A-2-3-4 all different suits is the best hand. If no player has a Badugi then one card of his or her pair or same suit doesn't count, so the player with the best three or two card hand wins.
