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Rules of the game
The game of chinese poker is played by two to four players. The game is played for points, where each point is worth a set amount of money. Each player gets thirteen cards to arrange into three hands, two five card hands and one three card hand. These hands are called the back, middle and front hand.
The hands will be compared against the corresponding hands of the other players. The objective is to arrange a set of hands that will beat the corresponding hands of the other players. There are often several possible ways to arrange the thirteen cards given to you and the only rules you have to follow are that the back hand must be of a higher value than the middle hand, and the middle hand must be higher than the front hand. The value of each hand is determined by standard poker rules. The front hand, with only three cards, cannot have a flush or straight.
Hand order: Back > Middle > Front.
After arranging all hands the players compare their hands to each other and the winner in each individual game receives a number of points, determined by how much they won.
In each round with four players there are six transactions of points. (See scoring for further information on this.)
Scoring
When the players are done arranging their hands and the cards
are put down. Each player compares their hands with each of
the other players and are rewarded points according to one of
several systems.
The six comparisons that are made are:
• Player1
vs. Player2
• Player1 vs. Player3
• Player1
vs. Player4
• Player2 vs. Player3
• Player2
vs. Player4
• Player3 vs. Player4
2-4
scoring
This is the most common scoring and can be described in two
rules:
1. A player that
wins two out of three hands gets two points.
2.
A player that wins all three hands gets four points.
These rules are derived from the following set of rules:
- The player with the higher Back hand gets one point.
- The player with the higher Middle hand gets one point.
- The player with the higher Front hand gets one point.
- Bonus points, if any, are added to each player’s
total.
- The player with the higher total gets an additional point
called the overall point.
- The player with the higher total collects the difference
between the two scores.
Without bonuses a player can potentially win 12 points, 4 points
from each of the other players.
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