More rows won with a valid layout wins.
Poker room / CLUB FORMAT 23Advanced
Open-Face Chinese
Build three hands face up, one decision at a time.
How to play
- 01
Build the same 5-card back, 5-card middle and 3-card front as Chinese Poker. Deal five initial cards each and place them face up in any rows.
- 02
Deal one additional card at a time to each challenger and place it permanently. Continue until each has 13 cards.
- 03
No placed card can move. Keep back at least as strong as middle, and middle at least as strong as front; a foul loses to a valid layout.
- 04
Compare rows for one game point per row won. No royalties, Fantasyland, scoop bonuses or automatic hands in this simplified club version.
Equal row totals or two fouled layouts push; replay.
Standard five-card high-poker rankings
Royal flush → straight flush → four of a kind → full house → flush → straight → three of a kind → two pair → one pair → high card.
Compare the rank of the made combination first, then kickers from highest downward. Suits are equal. Aces can be high or low in a straight, but cannot wrap around. Short Deck, lowball, Three Card Poker, Four Card Poker and Poker Dice use their own rankings.
AFTER THE GAME
Cards down. Phones up.
The winner proposes the agreed collaboration share on the loser’s first qualifying prospect. Both call counters start at zero. The loser can cancel the proposed split by completing the agreed redemption challenge before its cutoff. The actual work and contribution still determine earned credit.
Read the challenge and redemption rules ↗Underlying game reference: Read the standard-game reference ↗. This club guide defines its own simplified format; the reference does not endorse the club.
