![]() ![]() A standard 52 card pack is used.īefore playing it is necessary to agree on a stake. There are four players, each playing for themselves. ![]() 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.Ī recent development is Open Face Chinese Poker, in which after the first five cards, hands are built face up one card at a time. Another name sometimes used is Good, Better, Best, referring to the three hands of a player. In the Phillipines it is known as Pusoy, again not to be confused with Pusoy Dos, which is Big Two.In the USA it is often known as Chinese Poker or sometimes Russian Poker, but note that some people also use the name Chinese Poker to refer to the climbing game Big Two.The game is indeed distantly related to Pai Gow. In Chinese, it is also sometimes called Luosong Pai Jiu (羅宋牌九), which I think means Russian Pai Gow.In Cantonese it is called Sap Sam Cheung (十三張), which means 13 cards, and in Vietnamese it is known by the similar name Xập Xám Chướng.This Chinese gambling game is popular in Hong Kong and parts of Southeast Asia and is also played to some extent in the USA. Chinese Poker Software and Online Games.This page is based partly on information from Ka Lun, Anthony Horsley Sr, Don Smolen, Richard Dewhirst, Alan Ho, Brandon Bahti and several anonymous correspondents. ![]()
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