big two

The card game Big Two (Chinese: 大二; pinyin: d r; Cantonese: Chor Dai Dee) is a variety of President (also known as Asshole). The game is popular in East Asia, especially Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with three or four players, the entire deck being dealt out in either case (or sometimes with only 13 cards per player). The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all of your cards. The main variations from President are:

Suit matters - Spade > Heart > Club > Diamond. So a Single can beat another Single of same rank with a higher suit. Also, a double can beat a double if it has the Spade of that rank.
The player with the 3 of diamonds starts by playing the 3 of diamonds along with any other card if he wishes.
"Poker" hands are played. This includes Straights, Flushes, Full House and Four-Of-A-Kind. Higher hands beat lower hands. The lowest Straight is 1-2-3-4-5, and the highest Straight is 10-J-Q-K-A. A Four-Of-A-Kind must be played with a 5th card to complete the set. (Some variations have 1-2-3-4-5 as the highest or second highest).
Singles/doubles/triples/"poker"-hands can only be played on singles/doubles/triples/"poker"-hands respectively. Jokers can beat everything, as always, if played with jokers; however, jokers are not used in asian big2.
Depending on the country (i.e. Hong Kong or Taiwan or North America), the suit order also changes to Spade > Heart > Diamond > Club.

External links

http://www.pagat.com/climbing/bigtwo.html - rules on several variants
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~vyeh/big2.html - rules

Big Two

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