Welcome to the exciting world of Manila!

Manila, also known as Seven Up Poker, puts a unique spin on the classic game of Texas Hold ‘Em. You’ll find this variant in Australian casinos, and it’s known for its stripped deck. In Manila, we play with a standard 52-card deck, but all cards below 7s have been removed. This leaves us with a total of 32 cards to play with. Just like in other poker games, the main goal is to win the pot by placing smart bets, using your skills to bluff, and ultimately, outplaying your opponents with the best five-card hand.

Let’s get started with “The Deal”!

First things first, we need to set up the blinds before we start dealing the cards. The player sitting to the left of the dealer is responsible for placing the small blind, while the player to their left puts down the big blind. Once that’s sorted, the dealer then proceeds to pass out two cards face-down to each player, followed by one card face-up. In addition to that, a single card is also dealt to the center of the table.

Like Hold’Em, Manila is a game where we each get two cards, and there are five cards shared in the middle. Our goal is to make the best hand of five cards using our cards and the ones in the middle.

The game is played in five rounds of betting. After each round, the dealer gives us a new card. Then, at the end of all the rounds, we use our two cards and three of the five cards in the middle to make our final hand. Remember, a flush beats a full house in this game, and Aces cannot be used as low cards in a straight. The player with the best hand of five cards wins!

In Manila, there are different kinds of hands you can have. Let me tell you about a few of them:

A Straight Flush is when we have five cards of the same suit in a sequence.

A Four of a Kind is when we have four cards of the same rank.

A Full House is when we have two cards of the same rank, and three cards of the same rank. For example, if we have three Kings and two Tens.

Now you know the basics of Manila! It’s a fun game where we try to make the best hand using our cards and the ones in the middle. Good luck!

Flush: This is when I have five cards of the same suit, but they’re not in order.

Straight: This hand is made up of five cards that are in order, but they can be different suits.

Three of a Kind: Here, I have three cards that are all the same rank.

Two Pairs: With this hand, I have two separate pairs. That means I have one pair of cards that are the same rank, and another pair of cards that are a different rank.

One Pair: In this case, I have a hand with just one pair of cards that have the same rank.

No Pair/High Card: If I don’t have any of the other combinations, then the high card in my hand is what determines its value.