with aces being low. Thereafter, there is a different ranking of hands than traditional poker, with hands having distinct sets of ranks and suits being superior. Then, for sets of equal size, hands with lower rank of cards are superior (as in lowball). The badugi hand can consist of 1–4 cards of distinct rank and suit. Any duplicated suit or rank in a hand is disregarded. Any four-card badugi hand beats a three-card badugi hand, a three-card hand beats a two-card hand, and a two-card hand beats a one-card hand. A four-card badugi hand that consists of all four suits is called a "badugi". Two badugi hands containing the same number of cards are evaluated by comparing the highest ranking card in each hand (where ace is low). As in lowball, the hand with the lower ranking high card is superior. If there is a tie for the highest card, the second highest card (if there is one) is compared. If the ranks of all the cards in the badugi hand are the same, the two hands tie. Suits are irrelevant in the comparison of two hands. The best possible hand is A234 of four different suits. The worst possible hand is . Here are a few additional examples: beats (both are four-card hands) since the highest card is compared first and the is smaller than . beats since the former is a four-card hand and the latter is a three-card hand. (The is disregarded as a duplicate spade, so the hand is a three-card 247.) beats They reduce to the three-card hands A59 and A2J. beats both are three-card hands, but the highest in the former is the while the highest in the latter is the . and are of the same strength, since both of them reduce to the three-card hand A23. The redundant ( and ) do not affect the strength of the hands as they are disregarded. beats as the former is a three-card hand (after disregarding the ) while the latter is a two-card hand (both kings are disregarded since each is the same suit as another card in the hand). If one can construct two (or more) different badugi hands with the same four cards (as in the final example), the better badugi hand is evaluated against the other hands. This occurs when there are at least two cards of the same suit; one