Play Chinese Poker Online For Real Money

This is a brief description of chinese poker. For a more complete description you can download and install the free tiger gaming program then go to the help menu and choose chinese poker rules.

Each player is dealt 13 cards. The object is to arrange them into 2 hands of 5 cards and one of 3 cards, beating the hands made by the other players. The 3 hands consist of a back hand of 5 cards, a middle hand of 5 cards and a front hand of 3 cards. The back hand must beat the middle hand, and the middle hand must beat the front hand.

Otherwise, the player pays a penalty to each opponent. Only 3 hand types are possible for the front hand: 3 of a kind, pair, and high card. Straights and flushes typically don't count. Once the hands are played, each player compares his 3 hands against those of each of the other players. So in a 4-player game, each player makes 3 separate comparisons, one against each other player.

You win 1 unit for each corresponding hand of another player that you beat and lose 1 for each hand that beats you. When the hands match, you neither win nor lose. Your back hand goes head-to-head against each of the other players' back hands, middle vs. middle, etc.

If you would like to play chinese poker online (as well as guts, big 2, hold'em, omaha, omaha high/low, 7 card stud, and 7 card stud high/low poker) for real money or pretend chips, you can do so at tiger gaming. You can play against other people twenty four hours a day seven days a week from anywhere in the world.