CHINESE POKER RULES

Keep in mind first that the goal in keeping with Chinese poker rules is to have three good poker hands made up of your 13 cards that the dealer has dealt to you. The breakdown is going to consist of 5 cards, 5 cards and 3 cards. Hands will be judged by “units,” thus everyone in the game agrees on what a unit will be worth, be it $100, $10 or $1.

How you are going to position your 13 cards is of supreme importance in Chinese poker rules. Using the normal poker rules of counting your cards with such things as consecutive cards, four of a kind, straight, flush, full house, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, or royal flush, etc. all three hands must make a poker hand. There aren’t any wild cards.

The three different hands are referred to as back hand, middle hand, and front hand, the front hand is the one that consists of 3 cards. The back hand should be the strongest, with the weakest being the front hand. Part of the Chinese poker rules is that your front hand will be judged only on a high card, one pair or three of a kind. All players lay their 3 hands face down, with the front hand closest to the center of the table, and their back hand closest to themselves.

Courteously, everyone waits until everyone is ready and then the hands are turned face up. You will win one unit for each of your hands that is better than an opponents, and you will lose a unit to those that beat you.  Equal hands do not win or lose anything.

Depending on who you play Chinese Poker with, or different casinos, there are at times increased payments attached to certain hands, or occasionally certain cards in certain specified plays may be treated differently. Be sure and ascertain what the stakes are prior to sitting down to a game as well as any other Chinese poker rules that may have been invoked with that particular group.

You will find that there are many variations of this game, including extra units given for specified hands, or one may play against the house only, as examples. The point is, of course, that all must agree on different Chinese poker rules before playing what the special units will be, and how they will be calculated.

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