Chinese Poker
13-card poker — arrange your cards into three hands (3 top, 5 middle, 5 bottom) and beat opponents hand-by-hand.
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What is Chinese Poker?
Chinese Poker is a poker variant played with a standard 52-card deck dealt entirely to 2–4 players (13 cards each). Each player arranges their cards into three poker hands — a 3-card top hand, and 5-card middle and bottom hands — with the constraint that middle beats or equals top, and bottom beats or equals middle. Players score by beating each opponent hand-by-hand. Open-face variants where cards are placed sequentially are hugely popular online.
Quick facts
Category
Card Games
Type
Individual
Players
2–4
Where played
indoor
Country of origin
🇨🇳 China
Estimated origin
20th-century China; open-face variant boomed 2010s
Olympic
No
Popularity
regional
Sources & provenance
Last verified 2026-08-24.verified