Pok Deng

Pok Deng is a Thai gambling card game played with a standard 52-card deck, in which each player tries to hold a hand whose ones digit beats the dealer's. It is also called Pok Kao or Pok Baet Pok Kao, because hands worth eight or nine are the strong ones. The dealer deals two cards to every player and to themself, each player may stay or draw one more card, and each player competes only against the dealer, not against the other players. A hand's value, called taem, is the last digit of the sum of its cards, with aces counting one and tens and face cards counting zero. A two-card hand worth eight or nine is called pok and is shown at once. A multiplier called deng raises the payout for special hands: two cards of one suit or one number give song deng, three cards of one suit give sam deng, and three of a kind, called tong, is worth five deng. The game supports two to seventeen players including the dealer, is recommended for three to nine, and a round lasts from several seconds to a couple of minutes.