The card game Big Two (Chinese: 大二; pinyin: dà èr; 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. The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all of your cards.

The main variations are:

1. 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.
2. The player with the 3 of diamonds starts by playing the 3 of diamonds along with any other card if he wishes.
3. "Poker" hands are played. This includes Straights, Flushes, Full House and Four-Of-A-Kind. They cannot be played on singles/doubles/triples, and vice-versa. Higher hands beat lower hands. The lowest Straight is 2-3-4-5-6, and the highest Straight is J-Q-K-A-2. A Four-Of-A-Kind must be played with a 5th card to complete the set.
4. 2 does not beat doubles, only it is the highest single. (Jokers can beat everything, as always, if played with jokers.)

External links

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

See also

• Little Three
• Big Three
• Big Four
• Big Five
• Big Six

The Big Two, when used in the context of American comic books, refers to the two dominant American comic book publishers, Marvel Comics and DC Comics.