Pusoy Online Rules: Build Three Hands From 13 Cards

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Pusoy online in one reading: a game of arranging, not betting rounds. Each player gets 13 cards from a 52-card deck, four players to a table, and sets them out as three poker hands at once. The back hand holds five cards, the middle five, the front three. Then all hands are turned over and compared, back against back, middle against middle, front against front.

How pusoy online is played and scored

  1. Deal. 13 cards each; with four players the whole deck goes out.
  2. Arrange. Back hand (five cards) must be the strongest, middle (five) next, front (three) the weakest.
  3. Reveal. Backs face backs, middles face middles and fronts face fronts, against each rival in turn.
  4. Score. Win a position, collect a point from that opponent; lose it, pay one. Sweeping all three against one player usually scores extra.

Ordinary poker ranking settles the five-card hands, from a straight flush at the top down through quads, a full house, a flush, a straight, trips and two pair to a lone pair or high card. Up front, with three cards, only trips, a pair or a high card are possible.

Three hands, three conditions

HandCardsWhat usually goes there
Back5Your best made hand: a full house, a flush, two pair
Middle5The next best: a straight, a pair, two pair
Front3What remains: a pair if you can spare one, otherwise high cards

A worked set: holding a flush, a pair of kings and six loose cards, the flush goes to the back, the kings anchor the middle, and the three highest leftovers sit in front.

The skill is balance. A monster back hand is wasted if the middle and front are left with nothing, because you can lose two of three comparisons and still pay.

Pusoy Go and the other online tables

TableStudioLane
Pusoy GoJILIPOKER
Pusoy RushJDBPOKER
Pusoy7XgamesPOKER

JILI’s Pusoy Go sits right after Tongits Go in the JILI list of the POKER lane on phsky.la. The scoring per position, any bonus for a sweep and the list of special 13-card hands belong to each game, so read the rules screen of the exact title you open. A lobby seat starts on the brand’s own site; the register form and its fields shows what it asks for, and any Join 76JL button on this site belongs to 76JL, another casino entirely.

Red flags to watch for

  1. A table that never seems to deal you a balanced hand. In player tables the deal is the game’s software; if results feel wrong, stop and raise it with the lobby’s live chat rather than staking more to test it.
  2. Friends-only rooms with outside payment. Paying another player by wallet transfer to settle a Pusoy game is private gambling outside any operator’s rules, with no one to complain to.
  3. Speed traps. Short timers push you into fouls. If a table’s timer feels too short, pick a slower one.
  4. Offers of rigged-deck software. They are scams aimed at your login details.

The three-player rummy game beside it on the same lane is covered in tongits online rules, and the wider picture of card games against players or the house is in the online poker overview. Promotion words that touch card play, turnover and wagering among them, get plain definitions in the casino terms glossary page, while the casino blog home holds every other article.

How to Get Started

  1. Build the back hand first

    Settle the five-card back first, since it must top the middle. Starting from the strongest hand keeps the order safe.

  2. Confirm the hand order before locking

    Rank check, back to front: the back hand must at least match the middle, and the middle must at least match the front. Break that order and the whole set is fouled.

  3. Read the game's scoring and special hands

    Online Pusoy tables set their own points per hand and their own list of special 13-card hands. Open the rules screen before staking.

Studios in the lineup

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Quick questions, clear answers

Does Pusoy on this page mean Pusoy Dos?

No. This page covers the Chinese poker style, where all 13 cards are set into three hands in one go. Pusoy Dos is a shedding game played in turns, each player trying to beat the last combination.

What if the back ends up weaker than the middle?

That is a foul. Under common rules a fouled set loses all three comparisons against every opponent, so check the order before the timer ends.

Is a straight or flush allowed up front?

No. Three cards are too few for those, so the best a front can be is trips, then a pair, then a plain high card. Straights and flushes only score in the two five-card hands.