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Does anyone play Chinese poker?

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d0ofy

Golden Member
Last night I was playing Chinese poker and there was an argument regarding the rank of flushes.

I say: When comparing two flushes, you compare the highest cards within the flushes to see which one takes rank. Example: A flush of low diamonds with a 2 thrown in beats a flush of high spades with a King as the highest.

They say: You compare the suits first, before comparing cards within. In the example above, the flush of spades will beat the flush of diamonds because spades rank higher, regardless of the 2 of diamonds.

Both of us say we've seen playing the respective ways forever. How do you guys play?
 
The way I've played it is by comparing the highest card in each flush.

Then by suit if the high cards are the same
 
Rule from here
Flush:
Any five cards of the same suit (i.e. any five cards). The rank of a Flush is determined by the highest card in the set, with 3 being low and 2 being high (when the highest card in 2 flushes match, suit is used to determine the higher Flush).
 
As far as I know, hand-ranking for Chinese Poker, Pai-Gow and other specialty poker games follows the standard for "normal" poker. Flushes are ranked by the single highest card in the hand, ie:
A-7-6-5-2 beats K-Q-J-9-8

If the high card ties, 2nd high card determines winner:
A-Q-J-3-2 beats A-J-9-8-7

If top 2 cards tie 3rd highest ranking card is used and so on down the line. In the unlikely event that 2 hands tie exactly card for card, they split the pot. I've never heard of a single legitimate poker game that ranks flushes by suit and I defy anyone to show a set of officially recognized rules that say otherwise. Bridge ranks cards by suit, poker does not. If the people down the street claim that spades beats hearts in their penny ante games, that's just a house rule and they're idiots.
 
I lost so much money this summer when I hosted a bunch of games in HK.

number always bigger than suit
2 is the biggest

Trust me on this.

To spice up the game, you can add the following rules:
if someone get A ,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, j, q, k, it's an automated win (a dragon), losers pay 13 cards x 3 or 4
if you don't have any faced cards, you can cancel the hand.
 
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