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| Poker Games - Chinese Poker |
The aim is to arrange your 13 cards into three poker hands - two of
five cards and one of three cards - which will beat the corresponding
poker hands made by the other players.
There are four players, each playing for themselves. A standard 52
card pack is used.
Before playing it is necessary to agree on a stake.
Each player must divide their 13 cards into a "back" hand
of 5 cards, a "middle" hand of 5 cards and a "front"
hand of 3 cards. Considered as poker hands, the back hand must be
better than the middle hand, and the middle hand must be better than
the front hand. The standard poker ranking is used - so the hand types
from high to low are: royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind,
full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pairs, one pair,
high card (see the page on ranking of poker hands). There are no wild
cards.
Since the front hand has only 3 cards, only three hand types are possible:
three of a kind; one pair; high card. There is no value in having
a front hand with three consecutive cards or three cards of the same
suit: "straights" or "flushes" in the front hand
do not count.
Players place their three hands face down in front of them, the front
hand nearest the centre of the table and the back hand nearest themselves.
When everyone is ready, all the players expose their three hands and
each pair of players compares the corresponding hands. In the simplest
system of payments, you win one unit for each corresponding hand of
another player that you beat and lose one for unit each hand that
beats you. When the hands are equal you neither win nor lose.
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