Bai Buu

Rules
Bài Bửu (or "4 Cards Poker") is a famous Vietnamese table game played with a standard 52-card deck. Because the rules are quite similar to the Chinese Poker game, it is also known as 4 Cards Poker. There are 2 sides in this game: Banker and Players. Each side is given 4 cards and players will compare their card values to the banker to determine wins and losses.



Rules
1. Participants must re-arrange their 4 cards into rows of 2 each called "High" and "Low"
2. The value of "High" hand MUST be higher than "Low hand". Failing which, the player will get "Fouled/ Mis-set hand", resulting in a lost by default.

Low Hand

High Hand

Hand Ranking
Hand ranks from highest to lowest.
Rank Rank Name Rank Examples
1 Natural


Straight Flush


Four of a Kind


Flush


Straight


Three of a Kind
2 Bửu (Pair)


3 Công Lớn (2 Faces)


4 Công Nhỏ (A + 9)


5 Score



Card Ranking
A > K > Q > J > 10 > 9 > 8 > 7 > 6 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 2

Suit Ranking

♠️ > ♥️ > ♣️ > ♦️

Commission
3% of commission will be deducted from all winners.
Score
Naturals
If players have one of these types, they will auto-win, regardless of banker's hands

3 and 4 points
This occurs when Both Banker and Player have the same value of 3 or 4 points. In this event, BANKER AUTOMATICALLY WINS the corresponding hand(Low hand or High hand only).

Resolving Ties
When the final result of both Banker and Player's hands are equal, the highest card rank with higher suit rank will win.

Examples
No. Banker Hand Player Hand Winner Payout to Winner Description
1
  Score: 9
  Pair: K

Winner
Low Total: 9
High Total: 0
Highest card:
  Score: 8
  Pair: Q

Lose
Low Total: 8
High Total: 0
Highest card:
Banker 1X Banker win both Low & High hand.
2
  Pair: 3
  Pair: J

Lose
Low Total: 6
High Total: 0
Highest card:
  Pair: 4
  Pair: Q

Winner
Low Total: 8
High Total: 0
Highest card:
Player 1X Player win both Low & High hand.
3
  Pair: 3
  Pair: J

Lose
Low Total: 7
High Total: 9
Highest card:
  Score: 5
  Pair: K

Winner
Low Total: 5
High Total: 0
Highest card:
Player 1X Banker won Low hand, Player won High hand. Comparing Highest card: A > K, banker win.
4
  Score: 4
  Pair: A

Winner
Low Total: 4
High Total: 2
Highest card:
  Score: 9
  Pair: K

Lose
Low Total: 9
High Total: 0
Highest card:
Banker 1X Player won Low hand, Banker won High hand. Comparing Highest card: A > K, banker win.
5
  Score: 7
  Score: 9

Winner
Low Total: 7
High Total: 9
Highest card:
  Score: 7
  Score: 8

Lose
Low Total: 7
High Total: 8
Highest card:
Banker 1X Low hand tied, Banker won High hand.
6
  Score: 9
  Pair: 2

Winner
Low Total: 9
High Total: 4
Highest card:
  Score: 8
  Pair: 2

Lose
Low Total: 8
High Total: 4
Highest card:
Banker 1X Banker won Low hand, High hand tied.
7
  Score: 5
  Pair: 3

Lose
Low Total: 5
High Total: 6
Highest card:
  Score: 5
  Pair: 4

Winner
Low Total: 5
High Total: 8
Highest card:
Player 1X Low hand tied, Player won High hand(pair 4 > pair 3).
8
  Score: 5
  Pair: 3

Lose
Low Total: 5
High Total: 6
Highest card:
  Score: 5
  Pair: 4

Winner
Low Total: 5
High Total: 8
Highest card:
Player 1X Low hand tied, Player won High hand(pair 4 > pair 3).
9
  Straight Flush


Lose
Low Total: 3
High Total: 7
Highest card:
  Four of a kind


Winner
Low Total: 0
High Total: 0
Highest card:
Player 1X Player win. Player Natural auto-win.
10
  Pair: 10
  Score: 4

Winner
Low Total: 0
High Total: 4
Highest card:
  Pair: 5
  Score: 4

Lose
Low Total: 0
High Total: 4
Highest card:
Banker 1X Banker won low hand, then auto-win high hand with score 4 special case.
11
  Pair: 2
  Score: 4

Lose
Low Total: 4
High Total: 4
Highest card:
  Pair: 5
  Score: 4

Winner
Low Total: 0
High Total: 4
Highest card:
Player 1X Player won low hand, Banker auto-win high hand with score 4 special case.Comparing highest card, player win.