Badugi Card Game

Badugi flips the poker instinct most players walk in with, and that's what makes it worth learning. There's no flush, no straight, no pair working in your favor - the winning hand is four cards, one of each suit, as low as you can draw them, and a pair kills the whole hand outright. Every draw round is a choice between keeping a decent three-card badugi and risking a card to complete a four-card one, which is a much sharper decision than it sounds once real chips are on the table.

Five room types split players by stakes, so a hand you're still learning doesn't have to be played against opponents who've been drawing lowball for years. The rules stay identical across rooms; only the pressure changes.

How to play

Join a room, ante up, and draw new cards to build the lowest four-card hand you can with no pairs and one card of each suit. Keep any card that's already part of a clean badugi and only risk replacing the others. Watch how many cards your opponents draw each round - drawing one card usually means they're close to a finished hand, while drawing three means they're starting over.

Controls

Mouse click or touch screen to bet, check, fold and select cards to draw. Click a channel room to join it, and use the lobby menu to buy or claim free chips.