MILYON88 Pusoy: Splitting and Scoring a 13-Card Hand
Pusoy deals 13 cards to each player, who splits them into a 5-card back hand, a 5-card middle hand and a 3-card front hand — back must outrank middle, which must outrank front.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Step 1 | Deal 13 cards to each player |
| Step 2 | Sort your hand before splitting it |
| Step 3 | Build the back hand first |
| Step 4 | Build the middle hand, then the front hand |
| Step 5 | Reveal and compare all three hands |
Pusoy is a 13-card hand split into three separate poker hands, and most new players lose their first few rounds simply by ranking those three hands in the wrong order. This page covers how a hand is dealt, arranged and scored, as background before checking MILYON88’s table games lineup for what’s actually running today. It explains the structure of the game itself, not the stakes or house rules any particular table sets.
Before you sit down to a pusoy hand
A pusoy table needs very little beyond a deck and a shared understanding of the rules.
- A standard 52-card deck, with no jokers.
- 2 to 4 players seated, each dealt 13 cards.
- A working knowledge of standard poker hand rankings, from high card through straight flush.
- An agreed scoring unit settled before the first hand is dealt, since pusoy is scored against each opponent directly rather than against a fixed house edge.
Step by step: dealing, arranging and revealing a hand
A round moves through five stages from the shuffle to the comparison.
- Deal 13 cards to each player. One deck is dealt out completely, face down, until every seat holds 13 cards.
- Sort your hand before splitting it. Spread all 13 cards and find your strongest available 5-card combination first.
- Build the back hand first. This is your best 5 cards, ranked by ordinary poker rules.
- Build the middle hand, then the front hand. The next-best 5 cards become the middle hand; the remaining 3 become the front hand, where only three of a kind, a pair, or a high card count.
- Reveal and compare all three hands. Everyone turns their three hands up together and compares each one against every opponent’s matching hand.
How the three hands must rank against each other
| Hand | Cards | Must rank | What counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back | 5 | Highest of the three | Full poker rankings, up to straight flush |
| Middle | 5 | Between back and front | Full poker rankings |
| Front | 3 | Lowest of the three | Three of a kind, one pair, or high card only |
A back hand that ends up weaker than the middle, or a middle weaker than the front, is a fouled hand. A foul forfeits all three comparisons against every opponent at the table, regardless of what the individual cards would otherwise have scored.
Scoring a hand between two players
With 4 players seated, each person compares hands against all three opponents, so one full round produces three separate two-player comparisons for everyone at the table.
| Result | Units |
|---|---|
| Win one of the three hands | +1 |
| Lose one of the three hands | −1 |
| Tie a hand on identical rank | 0 |
| Win all three hands against one opponent (a sweep) | +1 extra, on top of the three hands won |
Units are agreed before play starts. Nothing here fixes what one unit is worth in currency — that detail belongs to whichever table sets it.
Common pusoy mistakes to avoid
The back hand turns out weaker than the middle hand once all three are revealed.
Settle the back hand first, from your five strongest cards, before touching the rest of the hand. Build the middle hand only from what’s left over, so the ranking order can’t invert by accident.
A three-card straight or flush in the front hand is played as though it outranks a pair.
Standard pusoy strips the extra value from a front-hand straight or flush. Only three of a kind, a pair, or the single highest card decide a front-hand comparison — treat any 3-card straight as a plain high card instead.
The sweep bonus gets disputed after the hands are already face up.
Agree the scoring unit and whether a sweep pays an extra unit before the cards are dealt, not after three hands are revealed and a disagreement already has money riding on it.
Checking pusoy at MILYON88
MILYON88’s own lobby menu lists a CARD GAME category alongside SLOT GAME, LIVE GAME and BINGO GAME, among others. Whether a pusoy table is running today is something only that tab shows.
- Type www.milyon88.fyi into the browser yourself, then press Log In or Register.
- Open the CARD GAME tab from the lobby’s main menu.
- Scroll for a pusoy or “13 Card” style listing; if it isn’t there, check LIVE GAME instead.
- Read the table’s own rules screen before joining — stake limits and scoring units are set at the table, not on this page.
FAQ
What is pusoy?
Pusoy is Chinese poker played with a standard 52-card deck: each of 2 to 4 players gets 13 cards and splits them into three separate poker hands, which are then compared hand-by-hand against every opponent.
How many cards does each pusoy player get?
13 cards each, dealt from one shuffled 52-card deck, with no cards left over when four players are seated.
What happens if a pusoy hand is arranged out of order?
A back hand that ranks below the middle hand, or a middle hand that ranks below the front hand, fouls the whole hand. A fouled hand loses all three comparisons against every opponent, whatever the individual cards would otherwise have scored.
Is pusoy the same game as pusoy dos?
No. Pusoy is the 13-card, three-hand game this page covers. Pusoy Dos is a separate card game, closer to a climbing or shedding game than to poker, and the two names are not interchangeable.
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