Chicago (poker card game)

Chicago is a poker-related card game that is one of the most widely played card games in Finland, where it is a common pastime in homes, workplaces and even schools. Unlike casino poker, Chicago replaces betting with a scoring system, so hands are ranked and points recorded on paper rather than money changing hands, which is part of why the game is considered acceptable in settings such as schools where gambling would not be. It descends from the same family of scoring poker variants as the Swedish game Fem-kort, and play typically proceeds through a fixed number of dealt hands using standard draw-poker hand rankings, with a running score kept across the session determining the eventual winner rather than a single showdown.