Badugi hand values i'm confused

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I played Badugi for the first time tonight

I had a badugi of 234Q and it lost to 3568 (all different suits), I thought the low 2 mattered but someone in the game said I lost because of the Q. I dont understand why?

Also If aces are low and assuming different suits why does 2345 beat A236

I'm clearly missing something here, any advice gratefully received.
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Like all lowball games, it counts from the highest card down.

So assuming you both have a four-card badugi, you compare your highest cards. Whoever's highest card is highest loses. If you both have the same highest card, you go to the next highest card, and so on, until you've settled the winner.

It doesn't matter that your 2 was lower than his 3. What matters is his highest card (and 8) was lower than your highest card (a Q).

In the same way, 2345 beats A236 because 5 is lower than 6.
 
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The best possible hand in Badugi is A234 if they all are different suits.Ace is played as a low card. The object of the game is to have the lowest 4 different suited cards as possible with no pairs or better.
 
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I remember when stars first started spreading badugi. Man, those were some soft games for the first while. I miss stars!
 
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I'm little bit confused about this game too. I'm not sure if it's better to hold a two or more suited cards in a hand, high cards with all different suits, or paired hands. How does that counts? Does anybody know?
 
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I'm little bit confused about this game too. I'm not sure if it's better to hold a two or more suited cards in a hand, high cards with all different suits, or paired hands. How does that counts? Does anybody know?

Read previous posts might help.

Essentially a 4 card rainbow is the badugi, if you have it and the opponent doesn't then you win. beyon the bedugi its a lowball game (also stated in previous post) whereby a234 is the best low hand (so ah2s3d4c for example is the nuts). If you have a pair in your hand even with or without a bedugi chances are someone probably has a badugi of some form.

If you have a badugi with say A223 vs a233 then you win, however vs 10jkq badugi then you lose (ie lowball game). Previous posts have pretty much laid this all out or provided a link to details on the game.
 
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Read previous posts might help.

Essentially a 4 card rainbow is the badugi, if you have it and the opponent doesn't then you win. beyon the bedugi its a lowball game (also stated in previous post) whereby a234 is the best low hand (so ah2s3d4c for example is the nuts). If you have a pair in your hand even with or without a bedugi chances are someone probably has a badugi of some form.

If you have a badugi with say A223 vs a233 then you win, however vs 10jkq badugi then you lose (ie lowball game). Previous posts have pretty much laid this all out or provided a link to details on the game.

I should have read through the posts more thoroughly before I asked. Thank you anyway, now it's quite clear to me.
 
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