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Mahjong (麻将)
Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of chance. In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand (depending on the variation being played). On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw", by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.

Traktor Poker "Tuo La Ji" (拖拉機)
Traktor Poker "Tuo La Ji" (拖拉機) is a Chinese card game similar to bridge, and was declared a sport in China in 2002 by the China Leisure Sports Administrative Center (CLSAC). The World Poker Tour has an agreement with CLSAC to conduct, film, and broadcast nationwide tournaments throughout China. There are four players in two fixed partnerships, and partners sitopposite to each other. A double deck of standard international cards is used, with four jokers - two red and two black. There are 108 cards in the deck altogether. The object of the game is to win tricks containing kings, tens and fives.

Fight the Landlord "Dou Di Zhu" (鬥地主)
Fight the Landlord "Dou Di Zhu" (鬥地主) is a card game in the genre of shedding and gambling. Dou Di Zhu is one of the most popular card games played in China. Dou Di Zhu is played with three people with one pack of cards, including the two jokers. The game starts with players bidding for the Cop position. Those who lose the bid enter the game as the Bandit team competing against the Cop. The objective of the game is to be the first player to have no cards left. Dou Di Zhu is described as easy-to-learn but hard-to-master requiring mathematic and strategic thinking as well as intended execution. Suits are unnecessary in playing Dou Di Zhu.

Big Two "Da Lao Er" (大老二)
Big Two "Da Lao Er" (大老二) is a "shedding" card game similar President, Crazy Eights, and Winner. It is sometimes mistakenly called "Chinese poker" because of its Chinese origin and its use of poker hands, and goes by many names, including Big Deuce, Deuces, Thirteen, Da Lao Er (Mandarin Chinese), Choh Dai Di, Dai Di (both Cantonese), and Pusoy Dos (a variant of the game). Popular in East Asia, where it originated, it is played both casually and as a gambling game. It is usually played with two to four players, the entire deck being dealt out in either case (or sometimes with only 13 cards per player). The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all of your cards.