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Bản tiếng Việt
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Attention: I built this page for entertainment only... I won't take any responsibility for anyone using the following information in serious gamble, or losing money over it... It has no purpose of encourage anyone to gamble... I just try to show basic rule to people who wants to learn to play a little game for fun with their friends... If you plan on using my work elsewhere, please make sure to credit me with my name and site address for the hard work I did to write the page... Thanks... Để đọc trang này trong tiếng Việt
Rule to play 13 cards poker game Dedicated to my growing-up-together cousin/friend Nicholas Nghia Gia Nguyen... Was there a time after a party, people gathered around to play cards and you felt so left out because you didn't know how to play this 13 cards poker game? No more... I write this web page in order to show my cousin the basic rule and strategies in playing this game... If you find out any mistake, please email me here for commends and feedbacks... There may be more complicated rule to play this card game, but this is the most popular rule I knew...
***** OVERVIEW ***** As the name suggests, each of the four players has 13 cards to play... Basicially, the lowest value card is card number 2, then 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, Ace... There's an exception when using straight which I will bring up in one of the section below... When the player arrange his/her 13 cards, he/she has to arrange them into 3 parts (name in game is "hands"): lower hand consists of 5 cards, middle hand also consists of 5 cards, and upper hand consists of the last 3 cards... The lower hand's value always has to be higher than the middle hand's value, otherwise you officially loose unconditionally... When show hands with other players, each separate hand is compared to the same hand from the other players... If player ties all 3 hands with another player then they tie overall... If 2 hands tie and 1 hand wins then win; or 1 ties and 2 win then the player wins overall too... And so on... Depends on how players agree first, most of the time player only has to show hands to compare with the dealer, not with the other two players... There's no tie-game with the dealer because the dealer is gained the advantage over the other players: any hand that ties with dealer's same hand will considered lost... Value of hand is decided by value of card, not the suit's... ***** RANKINGS ***** Now is the rule to show the ranks of hand's value... I put them in descending order... I talk about the 2 hands with 5 cards first because the upper hand of only 3 cards will be handled differently of course... "Unconditional win" is winning without having to wait to the end, just like blackjack when you have 2 cards of 21 points total... I will mention about types of "unconditional win" after explaining about all the ranks first so that you all have the basic ideas of what I'll be talking about in that "unconditional win" section... Ranks: -"Full house" hand consists of 3 cards of the same index and 1 pair... Example is 5 cards of 3 nine's + 2 K (picture below)... When comparing, use the 3 cards of the same index, not the pair... Highest in this rank is full house of Ace (3 Aces), lowest certainly is full house of 2...
-"Flush" hand consists of 5 cards of the same suit but not in sequence (sequence such as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)... Examples of flush are 5 cards of two + four + seven + nine + Q in the same suit of spade (picture below), or 5 cards of five + seven + nine + K + Ace in same the suit of diamond... The four suits of cards are heart, diamond, club, and spade... When comparing, use the largest card's value... If tie, then go to the next highest value and so on... As those two examples above, the flush of heart beats the flush of spade because of having the Ace high value than the Q...
-"Straight" hand consists of 5 cards in sequence but not in the same suit... Examples of straight are 5 cards of diamond seven + club eight + diamond nine + heart ten + club J (picture below) or 5 cards of spade Ace + heart two + club three + club 4 + club 5... As I mentioned above about the value of cards, this is the exception... The Ace in straight can be counted to be lowest as 1 to start the straight 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or to be counted highest as Ace to end the straight 10, J, Q, K, Ace... When comparing, use the ending card of straight to determine winning... Also the ending card is used to call the straight... The second straight Ace in the above examples is larger than the first straight 5... Also straight of Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5 is lowest than straight of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 even it has Ace...
-"Three of a kind" hand consists of 3 cards of the same index and 2 different cards... Examples are 5 cards of 3 five's + 1 K + 1 ten (picture below)... When comparing, use the 3 cards of the same index...
-"Two separate pairs" hand consists of 2 pairs and any 1 more different card... Examples are 5 cards of pairs of seven + pairs of three + 1 K (picture below) or 5 cards of pairs of seven + pairs of 3 + 1 five... When comparing, use the largest pair first... If ties, use the second pair... If still tie, then use the last card... In the two examples above, the first hand beats the second because of having card K higher value than card 5...
-"Pair" hand consists of 5 cards of 1 pairs and 3 different cards... Examples are 5 cards of pairs of seven + 1 Q + 1 five + 1 K (picture below) or 5 cards of pairs of seven + 1 Q + 1 three + 1 K... When comparing, use the pair... If tie, use the largest card in the left over 3 cards, and so on... As the above examples, the first hand beats the second because of having the card 5 higher value than card 3...
-"High card" consists of 5 different cards that don't fall into any of of the mentioned above ranks... Example is 5 cards of 1 card of club Ace + 1 spade Q + 1 diamond ten + 1 heart four + 1 club two (picture below)... Of course, we use the value of cards in descending order when comparing hands...
So now you all had the basic view about how to arrange your 2 hands of 5 cards/each... The upper hand can only be arranged as three of a kind, pair, or high card and use the same comparing method... We cannot call a high card a flush even the 3 of cards are the same suit or a straight even the 3 in sequence (exception as in "unconditional win" as mentioned later)... Always remember that the middle hand has to be higher value than the lower hand; the upper hand has to be higher value than the middle... ***** NAME CALLING ***** The player calls his/her hands from the lower hand toward the upper... There's not much of this section to mention about if this game will be played in English... To learn about the ways of name calling in Vietnamese, click on the link "Bài xập xám" to go to Vietnamese version of this page... ***** UNCONDITIONAL WIN ***** Alright, let's talk about "unconditional win" when the player got the cards that he/she can win right away without having to wait to show hands later (just as when player got 21 points with 2 cards in blackjack): -"Whole dragon win" is when the player has cards make a straight from 2 to Ace (there's one card of each index)... -"Straight flush win" is when the player has 5 cards make a sequence in same suit... Example for this is eight + nine + ten + J + Q of same suit (club) as in the picture below:
-"Four of a kind win" is when the player has 4 cards of the same index... As in the example below is a win hand consist of 4 cards of Ace:
-"Six pairs win" is when the player has 6 pairs... -"Three straight hands win" is when the player has 2 straights, 2 straights of 5 cards at the lower and in the middle hands, and 1 straight of 3 cards on the upper hand... Remember that the player has to arrange the higher value 5 cards straight hand in the lower hand first, then put the second 5 cards straight in middle, and the 3 cards straight in upper of course... Otherwise, the player will come from "unconditional win" to "unconditional loose"... -"Three flush hands win" is when the player has 2 flush, 2 flush of 5 cards at the lower and in the middle hands, and 1 flush of 3 cards on the upper hand... Just as "three straight hands win", remember to has the higher value 5 cards flush at the lower hand, then the second 5 cards flush in the middle, then the 3 cards flush on the top hand to avoid "unconditional loose"... ***** STRATEGIES ***** You can now join in a 13 cards poker game, but don't play for money just yet unless you're a super lucky person... It's better to play just for fun no matter how good you are at gamble... Win-loose in a 13 cards poker game is not just based on the basic knowledge but also the strategy to win overall after comparing 3 hands to 3 hands of another player... What I meant is such as the situations when the player has a highest value full house of Ace at his/her lower hand, but if he/she do that then the rest of the cards won't make up any of valuable hands at all... So, he/she'd better use those cards to arrange into other hands to make all the hands powerful, not just one... Talking about strategies is talking about knowing how and when to use the cards you got to arrange in the overall winning hands... There's time that the player wins the game when having only 3 high value pairs and he/she puts each in each hand (of course the highest value must be at the lower, second high in middle and the last pair on top)... These hands may win when the other player has full house in lower hand + 1 less value pair in mddle than the pair in the player's middle hand + another least value pair on the top hand... There's time when the player has 4 pairs and chooses to put the smallest 2 pairs at the lower hand + the highest value pair in the middle + the last on the top to win the other player has the full house in lower + 1 less value pair in middle + 1 least value pair on top... There's time when the player wins when having a full house at lower hand and the other 2 hands are just high-card hands because the other player has flush in lower + 2 pairs in middle + less value high-card hand on top... There are more strategies to win overall the game, it's up to you with your smart mind to become the "god of gamble" then... There are few basic strategies players usually go by because of the logic (of course there's always exception)... Usually when player has flush at lower hand and 2 pairs, then he/she should put both 2 pairs in the middle hand to defend... On the contrary, when he/she has full house at lower hand and 2 pairs, then the player should put the higher value pair in middle hand and the second pair on top to offense... Simply because when he/she has full house in lower hand then there's a chance to win that lower hand already because full house is highest rank... So, the player has to win at least another hand to win overall... There's a better chance to win at the upper hand if the player puts 1 pair there instead of stuck both pairs in the middle hand... The odd of the other players have high value upper hand is smaller but the odd of them having higher value than 2 pairs in the middle hand is much larger... Exceptions are when the full house too low in value (ex: full house of 2) easy to loose to higher value full house or when the flush had high value that player thinks he/she got a chance to win that hand so he/she wants to win another hand for overall winning ... Another strategy is when player has 5 pairs... Usually, the player should play offense: put the highest value pair on the upper hand to ensure winning of this hand, put the highest value among the rest at the lower hand with 1 of the 2 lowest value pairs, the remaining pairs stay in the middle hand... But, there's time when the player chooses to put the highest value pair and the smallest value pair at the lower hand (the highest to avoid unconditional loose, the smallest because there's very small chance to win lower hand with 2 pairs, so why waste higher value pair there?) + the second highest value pair and the third highest value pair in the middle hand + the remaining pair on the top hand... This strategy is to win when others have flush at lower + 2 pairs in middle which are less value than the player's second highest value pair + only high-card on top... They're just strategies, you can follow or not, it's totally up to your own decision... When you gain more experience, you will know how to arrange your cards for the best overall value... I know how to play, but not too good at it... So, win-loose is totally up to your luck and your smart mind... I won't take any responsibility if you use information on this page to play pro-gamble for money or get yourself addicted by gamble...
Remember that we play just for fun, so don't let gambling controls you... I'm totally 100% against gamble... Good luck and have fun...
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