The Rules of Chinese Poker

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Rules of the game in an outdoor Chinese Poker:

OFC Poker (Open Face Chinese) or outdoor Chinese poker has a structure of three or hand positions, rising in value:

The top line of the 3 cards (the weakest)

Midline of 5 cards (average strength)

The bottom line of 5 cards (the strongest)

They look like this:

The game can participate from 2 to 4 people. Originally issued to all 5 cards. First party makes a move to the left of the dealer (chip, which moves in a circle around the table each turn) . All players are laid out 5 cards at their discretion on the lower, middle or upper position

IMPORTANT! Once you put the card on the table, it can no longer move.

Then, all in turn is given one card, each player puts her face (because we play poker open) one of the three lines in order to gather the most powerful combination. The goal - to not only make maps of the strongest arm , but still get a lot of bonuses in the form of "royalties" without violating the ascending order of force lines. The player gets 1 point (or as is customary in Russian community “jackpot ") from the opponent for each win line. If you win all 3 lines of your opponent, you get an additional 3 points. This is called “break the bank.”

IMPORTANT! If you fail to comply with the order of arm strength, then you lose the hand or " folite " ( also popular expression " buys " ) , as is commonly expressed in this game . All opponents are not fouled, rip on you bank, ie get 3 points.

In Chinese, there is a system of bonus poker jackpots, which is called "royalty”. These points are given to you for a combination of top-class on certain lines.

Standard royalty Open Face Chinese (Extra points for the combination)

1) Bottom line.

Street: 2

Flash: 4

Full house: 6

Bob: 8

Straight flush: 10

Royal Flush: 20

2) The middle line.

Street: 4

Flash: 8

Full house: 12

Bob: 16

Straight flush: 20

Royal Flush: 40

3) The upper line.

Additional points are awarded with 66 pairs ( 1 point) and for each additional pair added 1 point (77 : 2 , 88 : 3 , etc. ) up to a couple of AA ( 9 points) .

With sets principle is the same , for a combination of 222 ( 10 points) and for each subsequent set adds 1 point ( 333: 11 , 444: 12 , etc.) set up to AAA ( 22 ) .

IMPORTANT! In Russia and the CIS rules and scoring is slightly different. For example, most often for a winning line you get 2 points from your opponent, and for sparing 6, in contrast to the international rules for winning the line where you get 1 point, and for sparing 3.

Click here to see the full list of royalties for the top line.

IMPORTANT! If you and your opponent have a royalty on the same lines, then you translate your combination in glasses and takes less number from a larger player with the high hand gets the difference.

That's all the basic rules of Chinese Poker Open. In the text as it may seem, remember that it takes too much information, but we can assure you that as soon as you sit down for a game table to explore the game in practice, things quickly fall into place. Let's try to understand the rules applied to specific distributions.