We simply refer to the game as "9 card" and it basically involves each player (5 maximum) throwing a small coin (10p in our case) into the pot, being dealt their 9 cards, and arranging them into the best possible, separate, 3 card hands.

The www.pkr.com hand rankings are as follows and run along the same lines as 3 card poker, the top hand is 3 of a kind followed by the straight flush, then the straight, then the flush, then a pair and highcard, interestingly though in our game if you are dealt 4 of a kind in your 9 cards, you win instantly unless someone has a higher 4 of a kind.

The 4 of a kind being dealt doesn’t happen often though and usually the poker players will arrange their cards into a best, a second best, and a worst 3 card hand, and lay them on the table face down, then the players take turns to show their pkr poker best hand.

Whoever wins the best hand then turns over their second best, they must win this also to have a chance at winning the pot, then if they win that second hand, they turn over their final and weakest hand. If they beat everyone on all 3 hands they take the money, if someone beats them on their second or third hand, they have been "blocked" and another coin goes into the pot from each pkr.com player, and another hand is played, with the online poker pot building up each hand until someone wins all 3 of their hands and the pot with it.

PLAY NOW at pkr.com and put this to the test!