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Ivey vs. Elezra Chinese Poker – The Life of Ivey

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Eli Elezra stalling the chinese poker game, Phil Ivey with goofy hair and both of them enjoying the awesome private jet lifestyle. Goddamn poker life is good. ;-)

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Something Unusual in the Poker Room – Rough guide to Chinese Poker

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

chinesepoker.jpgChinese Poker is a fascinating version of poker that’s very different to most other poker variants. It is rare to find, but when you do you might be pleasantly surprised. Chinese poker is fourhanded as a maximum as having been dealt 13 cards face down, you must separate them into 3 different hands. The first hand (a hand of five) must better then your second (another hand of five) and your second better then your last (three card hand).

You have one minute to arrange your hand then hands are scored. Yes that’s it just a minute.

The objective in Chinese Poker is the same as normal poker but you playing with 3 separate hands. As you can imagine there are a lot of different combinations in Chinese poker, which is what makes it so interesting.

After arranging the hands all players compare their hands to each other and the winner in each individual game receives a number of points, determined by how many hands they have won.

This is how you score points after each round:

• Player A vs. Player B
• Player A vs. Player C
• Player A vs. Player D
• Player B vs. Player C
• Player B vs. Player D
• Player C vs. Player D

A point for each winning player. Confused? There is actually a more popular method of scoring; ‘2-4 scoring’ where you win 2 points for beating two players and 4 points for beating all three.

With no draws, betting or bluffing Chinese Poker is more about the luck of the original hole cards, but with a minute to arrange them you can find that the speedier you are the better you are.