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We are facing a new era in Chinese poker development. Red Dragon Poker and its connection to the most popular poker room in the world — PokerStars — are the new players. In this article, we review in detail the poker room, and we will share with you all the necessary details to understand the new boom.
Is PokerStars entering into the Chinese online poker market?
As you probably know, the Chinese poker rooms development is one of the most important advances in the gambling industry of the last years. Even though gambling is completely banned in China, and the authorities passed a law prohibiting poker applications, the number of available sites to play for real money has only grown, which can be explained with the high interest of Chinese fans to play online and players from other countries attracted by the weak fields which compensates for the hassles of playing via mobile applications.
Considering the great potential isn't shocking than PokerStars had decided to enter into the Chinese market; despite all the recent changes against regular players (banning seating scripts, chests VIP program, etc), PokerStars firmly holds the online poker leadership and pursues an aggressive marketing policy on any available market. Now it's China's turn. PokerStars decided not to reinvent the wheel and used the same model applied to the Russian market (tournament series and mobile application).
Red Dragon Poker is the chosen application. You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes in order to identify Red Dragon as a PokerStars brand. The PokerStars logo can be spotted easily right by the Red Dragon sign and the PokerStars Live Asia logo:
Also, on the website page where you download the application, you can see this message:
To complete your detective experience, just visit the PokerStars Live Asia website to find the Red Dragon Logo, and you will have the big picture.
The Red Dragon Poker brand was first introduced into the market a few years ago: in 2010 the Macau Poker Cup had it, but the name was removed from the series in 2013 and after that, only individual events had the Red Dragon name. Once again, the Red Dragon name appeared in the Jeju Red Dragon festival, a tournament series held in South Korea at Jeju at the Landing Resort & Casino and sponsored by PokerStars Live Asia. The connection here can be easily identified as the Red Dragon logo can be seen everywhere.
To end the story, PokerStars recently introduced 6+ Hold'em with a particular rule (a straight beats a set) and the same rules apply to Red Dragon Poker. The website application is only available in Chinese and English, the domain is registered in Beijing through Alibaba Ltd, and the games are played in Chinese Renminbi (CNY), specific signs to attract Chinese players.
Red Dragon Poker main features
Although Red Dragon Poker belongs to the Chinese poker rooms model, its organizational model can only be compared to PokerKing Asia. There are no clubs and players get access to all the tables at once. Everything else at Red Dragon Poker is similar to other mobile applications.
The room has been designed in dark colors. The lobby and the table list look like this:
Anyone who has played a few hands at any Chinese poker room will be able to navigate the lobby very quickly. Above the list of tables, there are filters and options to hide full tables from your view. Each game discipline is divided into four groups.
Hold'em and Omaha traffic (USD in brackets):
| Micro | Low | Medium | High |
| 0,1/0,2 (NL3 - PLO3) | 1/2 (NL30 - PLO30) | 5/10 (NL150 - PLO150) | 50/100 (NL1,5K - PLO1,5K) |
| 0,25/0,5 (NL7,5 - PLO7,5) | 2/4 (NL60 - PLO60) | 10/20 (NL300 - PLO300) | 100/200 (NL3K - PLO3K) |
| 0,5/1 (NL15 - PLO15) | 25/50 (NL750 - PLO750) | 500/1,000 (NL15K PLO15K) | |
| 1,000/2,000 (NL30K - PLO30K) |
6+ Hold'em traffic:
| Micro | Low | Medium | High |
| 0,1 ($0,015) | 1 ($0,15) | 5 ($0,75) | 50 ($6) |
| 0,2 ($0,03) | 2 ($0,30) | 10 ($1,5) | 100 ($12) |
| 0,5 ($0,075) | 25 ($3) | 200 ($24) | |
| 500 ($60) | |||
| 1,000 ($120) |
A lot of tables at all stakes are available to play. All the tables at Red Dragon Poker have ante which equals the small blind, and some tables have also straddle. Therefore, preflop the pot size is decent and that leads the game to be looser, and many opponents prefer to sit at the table with stacks over 100bb.
The games are very soft, for example, there is a screen of a random table at 5/10 stake (NL150):
There is no HUD support for Red Dragon Poker yet. All players have access to the following statistics (under the 'Me' section) and clicking on opponents at the tables:
Red Dragon Poker — Traffic
Despite its youth, Red Dragon Poker already attracts a lot of Chinese players. There are available tables in the lobby around the clock. We have monitored the action at different times:
Texas Hold'em
| Stake | 11:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 | 21:00 |
| 0,1/0,2 | 13 | 9 | 16 | 6 |
| 0,25/0,5 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 7 |
| 0,5/1 | 10 | 11 | 15 | 6 |
| 1/2 | (17) | (13) | (22) | (13) |
| 2/4 | (11) | (10) | (11) | (6) |
| 5/10 | 1 (15) | 3 (12) | 4 (12) | 2 (10) |
Omaha
| Stake | 11:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 | 21:00 |
| 0,1/0,2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 0,25/0,5 | ||||
| 0,5/1 | ||||
| 1/2 | (2) | (4) | (4) | (3) |
| 2/4 | (3) | (1) | (1) | (2) |
| 5/10 | (1) | (5) | (3) | (4) |
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6+ Hold'em
| Stake | 11:00 | 16:00 | 18:00 | 21:00 |
| 0,2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 0,5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 1 |
According to the tables, it can be concluded that NLH at low and medium stakes (up to NL150) have enough available tables during the day. There is only micro-stakes action in 6+ Hold'em. PLO has only 4 active limits (PLO30-PLO150) and about ten tables during the evening.
Red Dragon Poker also has MTT action (SnG lobby is still empty). The room hosts more than a dozen tournaments with buy-ins from 1,000CNY ($140) up to 30,000CNY ($4,300). The rake is 10%, and almost all of them have a deep structure (initial stack over 100bb), and the blinds increase every 8 minutes. About 100-120 players play the tournaments.
Red Dragon Poker — Rakeback
Our first comment is that there are no chests at Red Dragon Poker. There are jackpot tables giving prizes for getting quads or stronger hands. The jackpot payouts depend on the stake.
Our deal at Red Dragon Poker provides rakeback (in the form of returning a part of the withdrawal commission) and a full deposit guarantee. Please contact our manager David to know more details about the Red Dragon Poker deal.
Conclusion
Red Dragon Poker can be called the first big pleasant surprise of 2019. The room has all needed to become one of the leaders of the Chinese poker market and compete head-to-head with 'monsters' such as PokerMaster and PPPoker. The PokerStars support is, of course, the main advantage of Red Dragon Poker.
The action is still very soft at Red Dragon Poker, and it will be like this for at least a few more months. In the future, it will depend on whether the room can compensate for the influx of regular players attracting more Chinese fans. Right now, you cannot miss the chance of playing at Red Dragon Poker with our deposit guarantee and top rakeback deal.
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Dragon Poker is a fictional card game from the 'MythAdventures' series by Robert Asprin, featured primarily in the book Little Myth Marker. The game is an absurdly complex Poker variant, with the same basic rules as stud poker but with different names for the suits and face cards and the added concept of conditional modifiers. A conditional modifier is a modification to the rules based on variables such as the day of the week, the number of players, chair position, which hand of the game it is, etc. As a result, the game quickly gets ridiculously complicated.
Asprin has never provided the full rules for Dragon Poker; it is used in the book only as a plot device in a parody of professional gambling, and not as a fully developed game. This has not stopped fans from creating a set of Rules For Dragon Poker.[1]
The deck[edit]
Dragon Poker is played with a standard 52-card deck with the usual four suits: clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. However, the Dragon Poker deck's face cards are Elves, Ogres, Unicorns, and Dragons, corresponding to jacks, queens, kings, and aces, respectively. (Like aces in poker, Dragons can be either the high card or the low card in a straight, but not both.)
The deal[edit]
Dragon Poker is a kind of stud poker. That is, each player plays the cards he gets, with no chance to draw better cards. Unlike most poker variations, the scoring hands are made up of six cards rather than five, and a total of nine cards are dealt to each player. Thus, a total of five players can play for each deck.
The game is played with all cards on the table, with four face-down hole cards and five cards face up. The hole cards are the first three and the last one to each player. (Down - down - down - up - up - up - up - up - down).
Hands[edit]
With six-card hands, the variations of possible hands are far more numerous than in standard poker. Thus, the standard order does not necessarily apply.
The hands, with descriptions, from lowest to highest:
- High card: Same as in normal poker
- One Pair: Same as in normal poker
- Two Pair: Same as in normal poker
- Three of a Kind: Same as in normal poker
- Three Pair: Just what it sounds like
- Full house: Same as in normal poker, a 'Three of a Kind' plus a 'Pair'
- Straight: Six cards with consecutive face values, of any suits (see below)
- Four of a Kind: Same as in normal poker
- Corps-a-corps: see below
- Flush: Six cards of the same suit, with any values
- Full Belly: Two sets of 'Three of a Kind'
- Full Dragon: A 'Four of a Kind' plus a 'Pair'
- Straight Flush: Six cards of the same suit, with consecutive face values
A few hands require some explanation:
Normal hands — One and two pairs, three of a kind, full house, and four of a kind are exactly the same as in five-card poker, with an extra, 'don't care' card. Flushes, straights, and straight flushes are similar to their counterparts, but that the sixth card must fit with the same rule as the other five.
Added hands — Three pairs is as it would seem: three pairs of cards put together. A full belly is two sets of threes of a kind, and a full dragon is a four of a kind plus a pair.
- Note: The position for straights is out of order in regards to the list given in Little Myth Marker. This is because the number of possible straights is higher than that of flushes and fours of a kind.
The Corps-a-Corps hand — The 'corps-a-corps' hand was given no official definition in the book Little Myth Marker.
Betting[edit]
Dragon Poker has six rounds of betting: once after each round of up cards is dealt (the fourth through eighth), plus a final betting round before everyone shows their hole cards. As in traditional poker, the person who starts each round is the one with the best hand 'showing', that is, from just all the face-up cards.
Conditional modifiers[edit]
What makes Dragon Poker so intriguing (and confusing) is the concept of conditional modifiers. These are a standard set of rules that, depending on the day, weather, number of people playing, and other factors, determines what cards are wild, what cards are 'dead' (unusable), and other subtle changes in how the game is played.
In the books, the rules delineating conditional modifiers vary as well, depending on the dimension where the game is being played. It is not known if there exists a set or rules for modifiers that applies to Earth's dimension, nor, if they exist, what they are.
If a player makes a mistake in his interpretation of the current hand's conditional modifiers, so that he undervalues his own hand, the opponent is not required to point out the error (although he is not forbidden from doing so, either).
A few of the modifiers mentioned in Little Myth Marker:
- Red dragons are wild on even-numbered hands.
- Once a night, a player can change the suit of one of his cards.
- Every five hands, the sequence of cards is reversed, so the low cards are high and vice versa.
- Once a four-of-a-kind is played, that card value is dead and treated as a blank card.
- If there's a ten showing in the first two face-up cards in each hand, then sevens will be dead (Unless there is a second ten showing, then it cancels the first).
- If the first card turned face up in a round is an Ogre, the round will be played with an extra hole card, four face up and five face down.
Odds (natural deck)[edit]
Dragon Poker Hands (4-Jokers deck)[edit]
Here 'N' means 'natural' (that is, without any wild cards), and 'W' means 'using at least one wild card'.
Notes:--At least 1 Wild > 13,915,044 (43%)--exactly 1 Wild > 10,395,840 (32%)
Notice that certain hands (2 pair, 3 pair, full belly) will be natural-only hands, because wild cards can make better hands. (For example, two pair using a wild card is no longer two pair, but three of a kind.) This effect boosts the probabilities of some high-scoring hands, such as straights, at the expense of lower-scoring hands.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^See example rulesets published include Bob Galley's and Card Games Online: https://sites.google.com/site/rulesofdragonpoker/home