Open-face Chinese poker

Open-face Chinese poker, commonly abbreviated OFCP or called Open Face Chinese, is a variant of Chinese poker in which each of two to four players is dealt five cards to begin and then receives one additional card at a time until they have assembled a full thirteen-card hand, whether or not that hand forms a legal poker ranking. The game originated in Finland during the mid-2000s and later spread to Russia, where professional poker player Alex Kravchenko introduced it to the country's high-stakes poker community, later describing its rapid uptake among players as spreading like a virus. From Russia the game reached the United States by 2012, and by December 2014 it had grown popular enough to support its first World Championship, hosted by the online poker operator TonyBet. Because every card is placed face up as it is dealt, all players can see each opponent's hand taking shape throughout the deal, which distinguishes it sharply from the concealed dealing of standard Chinese poker.