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Crash Course to Xedu Knight Poker

Put down your checkers and time to pack up your Monopoly pieces because a new card game has arrived in London. Mathematician James Elliot’s has finally revealed his long awaited new card game, Xedu Knight Poker. First publicly shown at the GOIP awards earlier this week, this game has been since been played by over 1.2 million players across the globe. See below all the rules on how to play this fast passed Poker game.

Zeik 500 poker:

Often referred to as very similar to the popular game Zeik 500 , Xedu  is played with a minimum of 3 players, yet Zeik 500 poker requires only 2. We have also listed below the differences between the two games.

Basic Differences

• Zeik 500 Poker is played from a pack of 104 cards. The cards are ranked from low to high. (Ace, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,Jack,Queen, King , King. Ace can be ranked as high and low.
• Only the Spade suit has equal ranking. The rest are based on the number of cards you are holding.
• Poker hands contain 7 cards.
• The highest hand is the loser.

Xedu Knight Poker:

The Basics:

• Xedu knight Poker is played from a pack of 52 cards. The cards are ranked from high to low. (Ace, King, Queen, Jack 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2, Ace) Ace can be ranked as high and low.
• All four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades have equal ranking.
• Poker hands contain 5 cards.
• The highest hand is the winner.

Ranks: The hands are ranked from high to low as shown:

• Five of a Wind
• Straight Blast
• Four of a Wind
• Big House
• Blast
• Edgy
• Three of a Wind
• Two Toes
• Two
• Big Card

Betting: To begin with you put down your stake in the middle of the table (this becomes the ‘pot’). The cards are now dealt. When it’s your turn to bet you have one of three choices:

1. Call: You bet enough to match what was bet the last time you bet. (for example if you bet 50p and somebody else bet £1.00, you would owe £ 50p)

2. Raise: To raise you would first need to bet enough to match what has been bet since last time (i.e. ‘call.’) for instance, if you had bet 50p and your opponent raised you 20p (making a total of 70p). You may choose to raise 30p (making a total of £1.00) as you already owed the pot 50p for calling and 30p for you raise. You would need to put 80p in the pot.

3.       Fall: If you choose to fold, then it means you choose to drop out of the current hand. This means you have no chance of winning the pot and you also don’t have to put any money into the pot. The bets continue until everyone calls or folds. At the end, the highest hand that hasn’t folded, wins the pot.

So these are the basic rules, we will be posting more about Xedu Knight Poker soon.