WSOP Cash Game - What is this?

[Etric]

Yesterday late night at the WSOP I saw a few people playing a game I was not familiar with. They each got like 10 or so cards and arranged them into a 3 card hand, a 5 card hand and another 3 card hand. Then someone opened their hands and another person opened their hands and an exchange of money took place. This was a high stakes (black chip) game. What is this game?? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[dibbs]

Kinda sounds like Chinese poker but I could be way off. Look up the rules for that game and see if it sounds about right.

[randomstumbl]

This sounds like Chinese poker. Each person gets 13 cards and makes two five card hands and a three card hand.

[Stefanie]

Yep, Chinese poker. From what I hear, the high stakes cash game pros play it a lot.

[Iceman]

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Yesterday late night at the WSOP I saw a few people playing a game I was not familiar with. They each got like 10 or so cards and arranged them into a 3 card hand, a 5 card hand and another 3 card hand. Then someone opened their hands and another person opened their hands and an exchange of money took place. This was a high stakes (black chip) game. What is this game?? /images/graemlins/confused.gif

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Four players. Deal each player 13 cards face down. You divide your cards into three hands: 5-card, 5-card, and 3-card, in descending order of strength. Straights and flushes don't count in the 3-card hand, so the only possibilities in that hand are trips, pair, or nothing. Then you compare your three hands to each other player's three hands - if you win all three hands against a player, he pays you 3x the bet, and if you win two out of three, he pays you 1x the bet. There are a lot of variations, but this is the basic game.

Example:

Player A: Full house/straight/AA
Player B: Flush/trips/KK
Stake: $100.

Full house beats a flush.
Straight beats trips.
AA beats KK.

Player B has to pay player A $300.

[Luv2DriveTT]

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Yep, Chinese poker. From what I hear, the high stakes cash game pros play it a lot.

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Some non-high stakes pros play it as well. Like me /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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[fnord_too]

There is one book on the subject. Don Smolen (sp?) has about a 40 page book and software program for the game for like $60. The man, if not the book, got a thumbs up from Sklansky (I don't think he has read the book, but he said Smolen was a very good player). I have both, they are worth picking up if you are going to play for any real money.

[Luv2DriveTT]

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There is one book on the subject. Don Smolen (sp?) has about a 40 page book and software program for the game for like $60. The man, if not the book, got a thumbs up from Sklansky (I don't think he has read the book, but he said Smolen was a very good player). I have both, they are mandetoryif you are going to play for any real money.

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fixed your post. I have both as well.

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[Phat Mack]

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Example:

Player A: Full house/straight/AA
Player B: Flush/trips/KK
Stake: $100.

Full house beats a flush.
Straight beats trips.
AA beats KK.

Player B has to pay player A $300.

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Or $400, depending on the betting structure. An extra $100 for winning the majority of the hands.

[Luv2DriveTT]

I forgot to mention, they play this game at Pokerroom.com

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[Photoc]

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There is one book on the subject. Don Smolen (sp?) has about a 40 page book and software program for the game for like $60. The man, if not the book, got a thumbs up from Sklansky (I don't think he has read the book, but he said Smolen was a very good player). I have both, they are mandetoryif you are going to play for any real money.

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fixed your post. I have both as well.

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Nice job. Mandetory is spelled mandatory

[Luv2DriveTT]

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There is one book on the subject. Don Smolen (sp?) has about a 40 page book and software program for the game for like $60. The man, if not the book, got a thumbs up from Sklansky (I don't think he has read the book, but he said Smolen was a very good player). I have both, they are mandetoryif you are going to play for any real money.

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fixed your post. I have both as well.

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Nice job. Mandetory is spelled mandatory

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Who says it's mandatory to spell correctly? /images/graemlins/tongue.gif Can't wait till Sunday, there will be some serious slow rolling going on!!!

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[dibbs]

I remembered they use to have this on there, I'm looking through my client right now and can't find it, do I have to go through the Java client or something?

[dibbs]

Nevermind found it on their webpage