Badeucey
A split-pot mixed game combining Badugi and Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw: the pot divides between the best four-card Badugi and the best five-card 2-7 low hand.
Coming soon — not yet playable
Rules
Badeucey is dealt like Badugi and Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw combined: each player receives five cards face down, with three draw rounds (each followed by a betting round) in which players may discard and replace any number of cards.
At showdown, the pot splits in two. Half goes to the best qualifying four-card Badugi hand — four cards of different ranks and different suits, aces low, evaluated exactly as in standalone Badugi (also in this library). The other half goes to the best five-card Deuce-to-Seven low hand — aces high (the worst low card), straights and flushes counting against the hand, evaluated exactly as in Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw (also in this library).
A player may use different subsets of their five cards for each side of the pot (their best four for Badugi, their best five including a card that might not fit the Badugi at all, for the 2-7 low), since the two evaluations are independent.
Strategy notes: Because a single starting hand needs to be evaluated for two very different hand types simultaneously, Badeucey is considered one of the more demanding mixed games on the tournament dealer's-choice circuit — strong hands often need to already show some badugi-like rank/suit diversity while also being low, unpaired cards suitable for a 2-7 hand.
Common house rules
No qualifier on either side
Standard rule: unlike some hi-lo games, there is no minimum qualifying requirement for either the Badugi or the 2-7 low side — whatever the best available hand is on each side wins that half, regardless of how strong or weak it is.
A player can scoop both halves
If a single player holds both the best Badugi and the best 2-7 low hand from their five cards, they win the entire pot rather than splitting it.
Familiarity with both component games helps
Tables new to Badeucey are often better served playing standalone Badugi and Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw (both also in this library) first, since Badeucey is essentially those two games' hand evaluations combined into one deal.
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