Pok Deng

Scoring Metrics

Pok

8 or 9

Pair / suited

2 deng

Tong / Str. flush

5 deng

Edge

2.5%

Game Rules

• Objective: get a higher score than the dealer's. Pok Deng (ป๊อกเด้ง, 博丁) is a fast card game that's popular in Thailand and across Asia. You play against the dealer with two or three cards, and some hands pay a multiplier called deng.
• Card values: an Ace is worth 1, cards 2 to 9 are worth their number, and 10, Jack, Queen and King are all worth 0. A hand's score is the last digit of its total, so 7 + 8 = 15 scores 5.
• Placing a bet: type the amount you want to bet in the bet box. Min 1, max 500, and never more than a fifth of your chips, because a loss can cost up to 5× your bet. Your chips only move when the round ends, and your bet stays in the box for the next round.
• Playing a round: press Deal. You and the dealer each get two cards. Yours are face up and the dealer's are face down.
• Pok: two cards that score 8 or 9 are a pok. If you or the dealer has one, the round ends straight away. A pok beats any hand that isn't a pok, and Pok 9 beats Pok 8.
• Drawing: without a pok you can Draw one more card or Stay. Then the dealer turns over their cards. The dealer draws a third card on 4 or less, and also on 5 or 6 if that score is behind yours.
• Deng (the multiplier): two cards of the same suit, or a pair, are 2 deng. Three cards of one suit are 3 deng. A straight (three in a row, with the Ace low and no wrapping, so A-2-3 counts and Q-K-A doesn't) is 3 deng. Three face cards (J, Q, K) are 3 deng. A straight flush or three of a kind (tong) is 5 deng. Any other hand is 1 deng.
• Hand ranking: pok first, then tong, then straights (including straight flushes), then three face cards, then ordinary scores. The higher type wins. If the types match, the higher score wins. If the score matches too, the hand with more deng wins the difference in deng.
• Winning and losing: the winner collects the bet times the winning hand's deng (a tong beating three face cards pays 2×), and the loser pays the same amount. If everything is equal it's a push and your bet comes back. There is no commission.
• House edge: if you draw on 5 or less, you win about 45.7% of rounds, push about 6.7% and lose about 47.6%, which costs about 2.5% of your bet on average. The dealer sees your cards before deciding whether to draw, which is where the edge comes from.
• Each round uses a freshly shuffled 52-card deck, and the cards are decided before they are dealt.
• This is a demo with play chips only. It is not linked to an account and resets when you refresh the page. You can switch between Gold coins and Diamonds between rounds; each has its own balance.