Addicting and fun game but I still for the life of me can’t figure out the tournament scoring. I play the tourneys a lot and finally cracked the top 20 rankings recently, but the scoring can be frustrating. You get 50 points for a win but if you lose there’s no telling how many points you’ll drop. I finished 2nd in a tourney and lost -160. Very next tournament I finish second and they take away -203. Scoring makes no sense. If there was any rhyme or reason to the scoring in tournament play it would be more enjoyable and less frustrating. I guess if you don’t care about cracking the leaderboard then it’s not a big deal, but I’m incredibly competitive and it drives me nuts trying to figure the scoring out.

The program itself is laid out well and has the correct basis. I’ve been messing around with the app for a few days there naturally lots of variations of Chinese poker; Mandarin, low-ball, etc - but how actual Chinese poker is played is not how this is setup. It should give you 13 cards at once and you can make the best 3 hands in order from top to bottom. It should not be giving you limited cards per turn. I’m an also a lowball player where the top 3 needs to be higher than them bottom 5, but the middle row should be 2-7 lowball and obviously straights/flushes count against. I haven’t found a way to play the actual way I’ve always played and that would absolutely prevent me from buying a pro version or anything of the sort.

I’ve been playing for a couple of years. Prefer the duplicate tournies but there is no way to get any explanation. I agree with the previous reviewer completely. But now it’s even worse... they totally redid the format. Lots of fun to play ... added fantasyland to the tournies. Lots more stats but there is no way to figure out how they come up with anything. I’m number 10 so far this week but I have no flames. Had four flames on the previous format. No idea what heat rating is... mine keeps changing but why?? And that’s lifetime even though I just started playing the new format this week. But it’s a really good app! Just wish they would add some explanations of scoring.

The apps layout is great. User experience is good for the most part. It fails on two fronts:1- there’s no documentation anywhere on how the game works, the scoring, how much time does one have per turn, how many free plays, how does one climb the leader board, etc, there is in fact no documentation whatsoever.2- some app bugs. E.g. the app sometimes accepts me into a tournament but then doesn’t actually seat me or deal me cards. If I refresh, app says I already my used free tournament and next one available is in a few hours. Also, it sometimes refuses to register a play and then places the cards in default positions instead. This may be an internet connectivity problem, not sure.