Badacey (A-5 & Badugi)

Badacey is a split pot variant of two different draw games in which the best A-5 hand and the best Badugi hands split the pot at showdown. The APT offers this game with both Single and Triple draw structures.

To learn how to play each game individually, please click the links below:
Click here for rules of A-5
Click here for rules of Badugi

Hand Rankings:

Now that you have studied the rules of the two games, you should have a pretty good understanding of how the games are dealt/played as well as the rankings of the hands.

Determining the Winner:

With Badacey being a split pot game, the player with the best five-card A-5 hand wins half the pot and the player with the best four-card Badugi hand wins the other half the pot. If two or more players having the same 2-7 or Badugi hands, that half of the pot will be split accordingly.
*In the event of an odd chip during the split, it is awarded to the hand that wins the 2-7 portion of the pot.
**In the event of an odd chip during the split of either the 2-7 or the Badugi side, it is awarded to the first active player immediately clockwise from the button.

Reshuffling:

Please note, in draw games, it is possible for more cards to be needed than are remaining in the deck. In this case, the cards are reshuffled, and play continues using the shuffled cards.