Gisteren kondigde Lee Jones van PokerStars aan de het steeds populairder wordende Open-Face Chinese Poker tijdens de PCA in januari een eigen event zal krijgen. Het event wordt een $2.000 re-enrty event.
Spelen jullie deze nieuwe pokervariant wel eens?
Ik heb het zelf nog nooit gespeeld, maar weet dat enkele collega's het wel vaak als homegame spelen.
Voor degenen die het spel niet kennen de spelregels (in het Engels van PokerFuse):
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Open-Face Chinese maintains the familiar poker hand rankings but otherwise has little in common with other poker games. It is typically played with 2-4 players and a rotating dealer button. A player receives 13 cards, and each player must break them into a pair of 5-card hands and a single 3-card hand.
In standard Chinese poker, the lowest value hand is placed up front with the 3-cards, the middle 5-card hand is the second strongest and the back 5-card hand the strongest. In open-face Chinese, however, the distribution is altered and players must make their hands without knowing all 13 at once.
Each player is initially dealt 5 cards, placing them in whatever formation they choose for the 3 separate hands. Then everyone gets one card at a time, placing each of the consecutive 8 cards accordingly, until all 3 separate hands are made.
If a player fouls his hand, meaning the ranking order is off, he pays out to others as if scooped. Once the hands are complete, the payouts are decided by hand ranking.
A player earns 1 unit for winning 2 out of 3 hands and 6 units for scooping. There are also “royalties,” a bonus for certain hand values.
