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How to Play Knock Poker

Combining aspects of the card games poker and rummy, KnockPoker can be played with as few as two and as many as six players, though theideal Knock Poker game is usually limited to between three and fiveplayers. Although somewhat similar toKnock Rummy, the hands are ranked in the same order as in poker.

Play begins with a single chip ante and then each playerreceives five cards, just as if a regular game of draw poker was beingplayed. The remaining undealt cards arethen placed in the center of the table as a stock. The opening player draws the card lying atopthe stock, which he can then decide either to keep or to discard. The other players then in turn can eitherdraw from the stock or the discard pile. This is how the game invokes Rummy.

After drawing a card, but before discarding it, a player canknock. What is meant by a knock isbasically that the player is calling for a showdown. A showdown in turn means that the otherplayers only get one more chance for a draw. After that the cards are revealed and the high hand wins the pot. If the player who called the knock wins, hegets to take two chips from each of the players who stayed. Those who felt they couldn’t win and decidednot to stay “escaped” meaning that they had previously paid the player whocalled the knock a single chip in order to get out of play. One advantage for calling the knock is thatthe player who calls the knock gets to keep these escape chips even if his handultimately doesn’t win. However, if thisoccurs and he the player who called the knock doesn’t win, he must pay the thewinner an extra two chips.

The rules of Knock Poker are not exactly fluid; sometimesthe game is played for bonuses depending on the hand. For instance, if the player who calls theknock wins with certain hands he gets awarded certain extra bonuses. Typically, a royal flush would earn thewinning knocker an additional four chips from each player. A straight flush would earn him twochips. Sometimes the game is even playedfor such bonuses as an extra chip or two if the knocker didn’t draw any cards.