Open face chinese poker

=The rules of Open-Face Chinese poker= Rules

Objective
The aim is to arrange your 13 cards into three poker hands - two of five cards and one of three cards - which will beat the corresponding poker hands made by the other players. Players, cards, stakes and deal There are four players, each playing for themselves. A standard 52 card pack is used. Before playing it is necessary to agree on a stake. Below I will describe the payments in terms of units; one unit can be worth whatever the players agree in advance - $1, $10, $100, etc. A Button is used and all players play in turn. The cards are shuffled, cut and each player is dealt 5 cards face down.

Arrangement of cards
First position now sets her first five cards into her bottom, middle and top hands, building towards a strong 13-card Chinese poker hand. You may place any number of your starting five into any of the three hands. After first position sets her initial five, second position does so, until all players have set initial five. Each player is dealt one more card face down. Each player, in turn, now looks at their card and sets it into their bottom, middle, or top hand. This is repeated until all players have 13 total cards and a completed Chinese Poker hand. Standard Chinese rules apply, bottom > middle > top otherwise you foul your hand. Once you set a card into one of your three hands, it cannot be moved.

X | X | X X | X | X | X | X X | X | X | X | X

Headshot Scoring System (most common)

 * Beat: 1
 * Scoop: 6
 * Foul: 6 to each player

Royalties
Your own royalties only count if you have a legal hand, in which case they count even if your opponent has a higher royalty.

High variance scoring system
This is the scoring system I devised after playing 1000s of hands of OFCP. This scoring system is to encourage "going for it" in the middle.


 * Bottom: Same as before
 * Middle: 4x bottom + Trips gets 4 points
 * Top: Same as before, but Trips gets +6 points.

Fantasy land
This extra component to the game is called "Fantasyland." It basically means that if you get queens or better in your top hand, on the next deal you get to look at all 13 of your cards face-down and set it like a regular Chinese hand while the rest of your opponents continue playing face-up. Getting to Fantasyland is a pretty rare feat because it's extremely difficult to make that big a three-card hand in Open-Face. It might be common in regular Chinese, but the hand values are a lot different in Open-Face. Fantasyland is a pretty cool addition to the game because a lot of people gamble hard to make it there and end up fouling their hand along the way. It adds more variance and excitement and puts another gambling element in play

If a player is able to get QQ+ up top without fouling their hand then they go to ‘Fantasy Land’, where then the next hand, they get dealt all 13 cards at once and are able to set their hand immediately like a normal Chinese hand, at the end receiving the OFC royalty scoring. If in this hand they get a regular Chinese royalty (quads+ in back, boat + in middle, trips up top) then they get another go at Fantasy Land the next hand and so on and so forth. This addition the game really ramps up the variance if you’re playing with people that like to gamble.

Reentering fantasy land
To stay in fantasy land you must get either :
 * quads at the back
 * full house in the middle
 * trips up front

and you have to announce that you will be staying in fantasy land when you set your hand.

Dealing
Deal the first 5 cards to players as normal. Then deal out the remaining 8 cards to the fantasy hand. The player then sets their hand in on their turn face down.

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