Razzdeucey

It’s like Razzdugi, except everything is 2-7 and nothing is A-5

You’ve seen Razzdugi: stud, half the pot to the best razz low, half to the best badugi. Razzdeucey keeps the structure and flips both halves to deuce-to-seven rules. The ace is high, straights and flushes count against you, and the badugi half is also aces-high. Despite the name, there is no A-5 Razz anywhere in it.

Think of it as Badeucy dealt as seven-card stud. It’s easy to get this one wrong at the table: “Razz” in the name makes everybody reach for an ace-to-five low. Don’t.

30-second cheat sheet

• Deal and betting are Razz: antes, two down, one up, three more up, one last down. Five streets, limit.
• 2-7 half: best five-card 2-7 low. Aces high, straights and flushes count against you, pairs are bad. Best: 7-5-4-3-2 not all one suit.
• Badugi half: best four cards of four different suits and ranks, aces high. Best: 5-4-3-2 in four suits.
• No qualifier on either half. If nobody has four-card badugi, the best three-card badugi wins it, then two-card, then one.
• The highest door card brings it in: A♠ is the automatic bring-in. The lowest board acts first on later streets.
• The dream hand is 2-3-4-5-7 in four suits, because it’s both nuts at once.

Full rules

The deal and the bring-in

Everyone antes. Two cards down, one up. The player showing the highest door card posts the bring-in. Aces are high, so A♠ is the highest card in the deck and always brings it in if it shows. The bring-in player may instead complete to a full small bet.

Street by street

1. Third street. Bring-in, then clockwise action. Small bet.
2. Fourth street. Everyone still in gets one up card. The player whose up cards make the lowest 2-7 hand acts first. With four up cards no one can show a straight or a flush, so it comes down to pairs and high cards. Small bet.
3. Fifth street. Another up card. Lowest board acts first. Big bet from here.
4. Sixth street. Another up card. Lowest board acts first. Big bet.
5. Seventh street. The last card comes face down. Lowest board acts first. Big bet. Then showdown.

Check-raise is allowed, stud misdeal rules apply, and up to eight can play.

The 2-7 half

Your best five of seven under deuce-to-seven rules: aces are high only, straights and flushes are bad, pairs are bad. The best hand is 7-5-4-3-2 with at least two suits. A-2-3-4-5 is just an ace-high hand. You compare from the top card down.

The badugi half

Pick the best group of up to four of your seven cards, where every card has a different rank and a different suit. Aces are high, so the best badugi is 5-4-3-2 in four suits and A-2-3-4 is the worst four-card badugi. More cards always beat fewer: any four-card badugi beats any three-card one. Among hands with the same number of cards, the lowest top card wins.

Winning

Both halves are always awarded. A scoop is possible but needs a hand like 2-3-4-5 in four suits plus a 7. Ties for a half split that half. The odd chip goes to the five-card hand, like Razzdugi (WSOP rule 153 says the odd chip goes to the razz hand in Razzdugi and Razzduci, and BARGE treats the five-card hand as the “high” side in these splits).

Rooms disagree

• The WSOP rule sheet contradicts itself. Its paragraph says the pot is split between the best Badugi hand and the best Deuce-to-Seven hand, which matches Haney and Card Player Lifestyle. But rule 333 says the split is between the best Deuce-to-Seven and the best Razz hand, and rule 332 gives an A-2-3-4-5 best hand, which only makes sense if it was copied from Razzdugi. This page follows the paragraph plus Haney and Card Player Lifestyle: 2-7 plus badugi.
• Is the badugi aces-high? Haney and Card Player Lifestyle say yes (“aces always play high”). The WSOP’s Baduci draw paragraph excludes the ace from the badugi side explicitly; its Razzduci text doesn’t say so. This page uses aces-high.
• The name. WSOP: “Razzduci (Razzdeucey)”. Card Player Lifestyle and Haney: “Razzdeucey”. Haney suggests it should be called “Super Stud Badeucey”.
• The bring-in. Haney says A♠. Card Player Lifestyle says “the player showing the highest card,” which is the same thing with aces high. BARGE has no page on this game.
• The “super” version. Haney says it’s “usually played as ‘super’”: four hole cards, one up, a betting round, then discard two before fourth street. Other forms he mentions are “Pineapple” (three down, discard one) or plain two down. Resorts World’s mix lists “Razzdeucey (Three Cards Down)”, which probably means the discard-one form, but no source spells it out. [INFERENCE] This page covers the standard deal.

Worked examples

The dream hand

2-3-4-5-7 with four suits is the dream

Alice

• 2-7 Low:7-5-4-3-2 low✓ wins
• Badugi (aces high):5-4-3-2 badugi✓ wins

Bob

• 2-7 Low:8-6-4-3-2 low
• Badugi (aces high):6-4-3-2 badugi

Alice scoops the whole pot.

Alice has 2♣ 3♦ 4♥ 5♠ 7♣. Those five cards are 7-5-4-3-2 with mixed suits for the 2-7 half. They’re also four different suits (2-3-4-5), the best badugi with aces high. She wins both halves. Bob’s 8-6-4-3-2 is a good low and his 6-4-3-2 is a good badugi. Both lose to Alice’s.

The ace trap

A-2-3-4 is the worst four-card badugi, and K-high beats it

Alice

• 2-7 Low:Pair of Deuces (bad for 2-7)
• Badugi (aces high):A-4-3-2 badugi

Bob

• 2-7 Low:K-J-T-9-8 low✓ wins
• Badugi (aces high):Q-T-9-8 badugi✓ wins

Bob scoops the whole pot.

Alice has A-2-3-4 in four suits. In Badugi with aces low, it’s the nuts. Here the ace is high, so it’s the worst four-card badugi. Bob has K♠ Q♥ J♦ T♣, which is king-high, and a king-high badugi is lower than an ace-high one, so Bob wins that half. Alice’s seven cards only contain four different ranks, so her 2-7 hand has to contain a pair. Bob’s K-J-T-9-8 is unpaired, so he wins that half as well.

The nut low with a bad badugi

The nut low, but all clubs and diamonds

Alice

• 2-7 Low:7-5-4-3-2 low✓ wins
• Badugi (aces high):K-Q-5-2 badugi

Bob

• 2-7 Low:K-J-T-9-8 low
• Badugi (aces high):J-T-9-8 badugi✓ wins

Alice takes half · Bob takes half

Alice holds 2♣ 3♣ 4♣ 5♦ 7♦. That’s the nut 2-7 low, 7-5-4-3-2, and the suits are mixed enough not to make a flush. But three clubs and two diamonds ruin her badugi: she can only take one club and one diamond, plus a king and queen from her other suits, so K-Q-5-2. Bob has J♠ T♥ 9♦ 8♣, and his jack-high badugi beats her king-high. Alice takes the 2-7 half and Bob takes the badugi.

How you’ll embarrass yourself

• Hearing “Razz” and playing A-5. Haney says new players “understandably get confused at the name Razz-deucey because Razz makes them think they want to make an ace-to-five low, and there’s also no mention of a badugi.” It’s Badeucey, dealt as stud.
• Mis-announcing the game. Haney describes nearly playing a full round of Razzdeucey while everyone else played Razzdacey/Razzdugi. Check the plaque.
• Treating an ace door card as good. It’s the worst door card in the deck, and the automatic bring-in.
• Forgetting that straights and flushes count against you. 3-4-5-6-7 is a straight, so it’s a bad low, not a good one.
• Starting with suited cards. Haney’s advice for the super version: start with three rainbow cards. Three-to-an-eight is good, and nines are playable if your worst card is hidden.

Lore and reputation

Haney (Card Player, January 2026) says Razz-deucey and Razz-dacey are “the most favored stud lowball variants” in low and medium-stakes mixed cash games. He suggests Razz-deucey might better be called “Super Stud Badeucey”, and that Razz-dacey was once called “Super Razzdugi”.

It’s in the Coach’s Resorts World $8-16 mix in Las Vegas as “Razzdeucey (Three Cards Down)”, and in Card Player Lifestyle’s Mixed Game Festival rules. The WSOP lists “Razzduci” in its must-move mix examples.