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Chinese poker is a great game for beginners or for more experienced poker players who haven’t established their poker face. All you need to learn is the poker hand rankings – the rest is simple!
From the ancient game of Pai Gow that still lives on today to Chinese poker in its various forms, it would be fair to say that China has a rich history of organized gambling that dates thousands of years back, even before some of the western nations came into existence!
Some believe that the Chinese version of poker has been in existence for thousands of years and it originated at about the same time when Pai Gow was introduced.
Others believe that Chinese poker is actually a more recent development, a modern hybrid, which began when western poker was incorporated into the ancient game of Pai Gow.
CHINESE POKER RULES:
Each player receives 13 cards.
You then arrange your hand into three different hands, two five-card poker hands and one three-card poker hand.
Straights and flushes don’t count in your three-card hand, only high card, pairs, and trips.
Your hands have to increase in strength, starting with the three-card hand.
Once you’ve set your hands, you compare each of your three hands with your opponents corresponding hands, with the best hand earning a point, and a bonus point being awarded for sweeping all three.
There are also bonus points awarded to making certain hands, starting with straights on bottom and pairs higher than sixes on top. These bonus points can make the game incredibly swingy, especially if one player “fouls” their hand – or fails to create three hands that ascend in value from bottom to top.
In that case, the player pays the sweep bonus plus any high hand bonuses. Depending on the agreed-upon bonuses, hands can get up to thirty points or higher in some cases.
IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE:
The game is unlike poker in that there is no betting and there is no bluffing or hand reading. You simply play your hand and compare your results to your opponent and settle up. But the game is a lot like poker in that it contains a perfect combination of luck and skill, though this game involves considerably more luck.
Open Face Chinese Poker is played with the same rules as Chinese poker, but players are dealt five cards face up, then deal the rest of their cards one at a time. They decide where to set each card in their three hands as each card is dealt and they do it face up so their opponents can see what hands they are trying to make and attempt to beat them.
Legend has it that the Russian poker pro Alex Kravchenko brought the game from Finland to Russia where it spread like wildfire among poker players there. Russian pros like Kravchenko who traveled the tournament circuit introduced the game to the tournament scene, which is probably why in the early days of the game’s popularity it was sometimes called “Russian Chinese Poker.”
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I'm not sure how you get those bonuses, but the way it's done in all the apps is quads or better in the back, full house in the middle or better or trips on top. There's no other hand royalties except naturals like 3 flushes/straights, 6 pairs, etc. I noticed your two flush example hand was fouled and the first player should have set it as 3 pairs to avoid a sweep.
You just foul up your hands by putting the higher flush in the middle. That's why only Chinese people should play Chinese poker.
Hi Dominic, I would like to point out about some misinformation here.
First of all, I am a great lover of this game. It’s totally not for beginners and not purely based on luck. No doubt any card games would rely heavily on luck to a certain degree.
The basic game play introduction is fine, and correct. However the problem with your demonstration shows a lack of understanding of a few points.
1) art of the game
2) point scoring system
3) foul consequence
4) bonus system
1. Art of the game. Just like Pai Gow, this game does not rely on just luck. If you have a strong 13 card hand, the objective it to score as many points as you can. While if you have a bad 13 card hand, the objective would consequentially be cutting losses. Just by taking your demo as an example, this is really bad hand. I would have played king pair as the lower hand, queen pairs as the middle hand and 8 pairs as the top hand. This way i could limit my losses to just 1 point.
2. Basic point scoring is correct. So in other words, the winning or losses between 2 players is 1 or 3 points. Disregarding the bonuses which is addressed below.
3. Foul consequence of minus 2 points is really a joke here. Foul means you automatically loses 3 points to the other player. This is as well disregarding bonus points if the opposing players have any bonus cards. Speaking of which you played a foul hand in your demo for the flushes for player 2. Which means player 1 should win 3 points instead..
4. Bonus system is really a joke here as well. Please tell me that is is indeed very difficult to form a hand of straight or flushes or full house from a 13 card combination. I would think bonus points for such combination is ridiculously generous for this game.
5. Bonus points defer slightly from the rules from country to country. But as far as the basic rule goes, straights,flushes and full houses do not provide any bonuses. If your lower hand has a four of a kind, you will be entitled to win 4 points instead of 1 points (that is if you win the lower hand). If it is a straight flush or royal flush, you get 7 points instead of 1 point. Pairs on the top hand do not give you any bonus points. The only bonus points available for a top hand is 3 of a kind. Which grants you 3 points instead of 1.
6. Coming to middle hand, it would be fair to say it is more difficult to get a poker combination. So for a hand that is larger than flush, you get 2 x bonus for the hand you have in the middle hand. Which means if you have a full house in the middle hand, you get 2 points. 4 of a kind =8 points. Straight flush =14 points. You would really need to be Super lucky to get this.
7. Additional rules is you get double points when you win all players on all hands.
8. Also special combinations which entitles a player to win automatically without going through showdown when a play get either 3 straights, 3 flushes, 6 pairs, A-K (dragon), A-9, 5pairs1tripple. There maybe other combinations depending on where you play from. The point won from special combinations is different. The lowest winning is 3 points from each player for 3 straights, 3 flushes and 6 pairs whiles with dragon, the winning is 13 points from each player.
That’s it, hope you can make something to correct this so guys out here are not confused.
It’s a pity to see such a fun game get degraded.
Lastly I have never seen this game in casinos, if you do please let me know!