Bottom hand: A standard 5-card poker hand.Middle hand: A standard 5-card poker hand.Top hand: A 3-card poker hand, which may only rank as a high card, a pair, or three of a kind.These hands are called the top, middle, and bottom: Open Face Chinese, also called OFC, can be played by 2 or 3 players.ĭuring the course of the hand, players will arrange their hole cards on the layout in rows to make 3 poker hands, arranged in order of ascending rank. Unlike traditional chinese, these cards are not dealt simultaneously, and players must place additional cards as they are dealt in turn. Each player is dealt 13 cards with the goal of arranging these cards on a layout to form 3 different poker hands.

Open Face Chinese (ofc) is a variant of Chinese Poker.