Chinese New Year

CNY is just around the corner, about a week til the first day of CNY or 初一. CNY marks the beginning of a new chinese calendar or also known as lunar calendar. During this celebration, chinese likes to celebrate it with fireworks, mandarin oranges, 'bak gua', and many more. The most important thing that for those who havent married is to get Ang Pao.. Besides that, there is one thing that many would do during this festive season which is gamble. Usually many will get together to play some card games even before the first day of CNY. Here are some games that usually played:
- Blackjack: this is the most common game being played as it is easy as long as the player know how to calculate.
- Chor Dai Di: This game only allow maximum of 4 players to play and this game requires skills and good memory. The biggest card is 2 of Spade which is Dai Di.
- Poker: Not many play this but some who is daring prefer this game.
- Pak Kah Lok: This is a game where the turnover is high and fast. 2 cards at first and then if ur points is less than a certain number set before the game, you can take one more card. 9 points is the highest.
- Ngau: 5 cards and from there 3 cards must form total of 10s then balance will be your point.

There might be many more but this are some of the common ones. So good luck to those gamblers and Happy Chinese New Year to all Chinese and Happy Holiday to non-Chinese.