POKER

[kAi]

There's two variants to chinese poker, it's pretty simple to get.

I play like normal poker rules
Suits from lowest to highest in chinese way: diamonds, clubs, hearts, spades
Cards from Lowest to highest. 3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-J-Q-K-A-2
5 card hands from lowest to highest:straights, flushes, fullhouse, four-of-a-kind+anotherCard, straight-flush
The lowest card in the game is 3d (3 of diamonds). highest card is 2s (2 of spades).
You can play single cards, doubles, triples and 5 card hands, there is no four card hand.

You deal 13 cards to each player, preferably to have 4 players, and deal the deck, 13 each. The person with the 3d starts the game, he can play this card as a single, double, triple, or 5 card hand, it doesn't matter, it's just that this person starts off the game.

e.g. a fullhouse. 3d, 3c, 3s, 5d, 5h

If you are playing single card hands, you must play singles until everyone has passed, and the last person to put a card down has control, then this person can play any amount of card down, be it double triple or 5 card hand.

If you can't put anything higher than the last card you pass, this can also be strategy, passing and letting other people play their higher cards first.

The idea of the game is to have no cards left.

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Although, there is another variation of this game (generally called chinese poker) where you have your 13 cards and you need to make your 3 best hands this way
Where the _ means 1 card.
_ _ _ = lowest hand / left over cards.
_ _ _ _ _ = Second highest/biggest hand
_ _ _ _ _ = Your highest/biggest hand.

5 card hands are always bigger than any other hand. Also the difference between this game is that now the 2 is the lowest card and the ace is highest.
but say you had a pair in the second highest hand, but a triple for the 3 card lowest hand, this is not possible because it can beat your higher hand.

The highest possible hand your cards can make weather it's only a pair of 6s, it needs to be in the highest hand and then you sort out your left over cards for the other two hands.


Hope that can clear up some things, which variation did you want to learn?

[010577]

hey i'm totally down if GW is willing to give some sorta internet prize... maybe the extra title of poker king / queen?

[Zidarri the Exile]

I only know 5 Card Stud, and Seven Card.

[PSJ]

Some sort of GW prize would be cool.

kAi, i'd like to learn the first one, also do you play this with money and in that case, how?

How does 5 card stud work? Is it like 7 card stud but with only 2 open cards?

[Ero-Fan]

Some sort of GW prize would be cool.
How does 5 card stud work? Is it like 7 card stud but with only 2 open cards?

Depends on who you play with. Everyone has their own 'house rules'. My family does 1 down, 3 up, then last down. I've seen some do 1 down 4 up (this one sucks) and 2 down 3 up. You can also just play where you get all 5 cards in your hand and none face up on the table. The more you have face up, the more often betting occurs, as well.

[PSJ]

Depends on who you play with. Everyone has their own 'house rules'. My family does 1 down, 3 up, then last down. I've seen some do 1 down 4 up (this one sucks) and 2 down 3 up. You can also just play where you get all 5 cards in your hand and none face up on the table. The more you have face up, the more often betting occurs, as well.

Hmm okey. Seems like seven card stud is more interesting than 5 card stud. But aside from house rules which style is the "official" of those?

Thanks for the explaination kAi.

[Xollence]

I just finished playing an all night tournament. So much fun, especially when you win a satelitte to a cash tournament. http://kjamezzz.mediahalo.com/image/....upload/27.JPG

[kAi]

kAi, i'd like to learn the first one, also do you play this with money and in that case, how?

Well, it's more of a buy in to play.
Everyone puts in say 5 chips, winner takes all.

but there is also betting by how many cards that each loser has, say.

1-3: 1 chip
4-6: 2 chip
7-9"4 chip
10-12: 5 chip
13:+: 8 chip

or somsthing similar to that.

So say
loser 1 = 2 cards left
loser 2 = 4 cards left
loser3 = 9 cards left.
the winner gets 7 chips.

[010577]

the way we bet in hong kong is you set an amount (ie. 1 dollar per card) and when one person loses all his cards, you count up the cards of each losing player and credit that amount to the winner...

eg.

i win... u have 3 cards left, john has 2, sarah has 7
i get 12 dollars

as a kiddy i played with 10 cards or more is double, 12 is triple, 13 is quadruple
but as i got older ppl play like 6 cards double, 8 cards triple, 10 cards quadruple etc. and u just keep getting punished exponentially if you hold alot of cards...

just remember strategy greatly varies based on how the betting system works because defensive play is more and more important as betting increases quicker


hey i'm totally down for rep points... someone can organize? how will this work? when?

[Xollence]

hey i'm totally down if GW is willing to give some sorta internet prize... maybe the extra title of poker king / queen?

What about all the losers giving the winner rep instead? I'm sure we're gonna be playing more than one game so if you keep on winning you'll eventually be able to give yourself the title poker king.