New to one of these games? Here's a fast primer on the Filipino favourites and casino classics available at JL568.
Tongits — The Basics
Tongits is played by 3 players using a standard 52-card deck. The goal is to empty your hand by forming valid melds — sets (three or four of a kind) and runs (three or more consecutive cards of the same suit). Here's the basic flow on JL568:
- Each player is dealt 12 cards (the dealer gets 13). The remaining cards form the draw pile.
- On your turn, draw a card from the pile or take the top discard. Lay down melds if you have them. End your turn by discarding.
- Win by going "Tongits" (emptying your hand completely) or by "dumping" — calling the game when you believe you have the lowest unmelded card total.
- If challenged after a dump call, the player with the lowest unmelded total wins. Ties go to the challenger.
- Point values: number cards = face value, face cards = 10, Ace = 1.
Pusoy Dos — The Basics
Pusoy Dos (Big Two) is played by 2–4 players, each dealt 13 cards from a standard deck. Card rankings from lowest to highest: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, 2. Suit rankings: Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades.
- The player holding the 3 of Clubs leads the first trick. Play continues clockwise.
- Valid plays: single card, pair, triple, and five-card poker hands (straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush).
- Each play must beat the previous one in the same category — you can't beat a pair with a single card.
- Pass if you can't or don't want to beat the current play. Once all others pass, the last player to play leads the next trick.
- First player to empty their hand wins the round at JL568.
Blackjack — The Basics
The goal in Blackjack is to beat the dealer by getting a hand value closer to 21 without going over. Card values: 2–10 = face value, J/Q/K = 10, Ace = 1 or 11.
- You and the dealer are each dealt two cards. One dealer card is face up, the other face down.
- Hit to take another card. Stand to keep your current hand.
- Double Down to double your bet and receive exactly one more card.
- Split when your two cards are the same value — they become two separate hands, each with its own bet.
- Blackjack (Ace + 10-value card) pays 3:2 at JL568. Beating the dealer pays 1:1. Going over 21 is a bust — automatic loss.
Teen Patti — The Basics
Teen Patti is a three-card poker variant popular across South and Southeast Asia. Each player is dealt three cards and the goal is to have the best hand — or to outlast your opponents through betting.
- Hand rankings (high to low): Trio (three of a kind), Straight Flush, Straight, Flush, Pair, High Card.
- Betting happens before and after cards are dealt. You can play "blind" (without looking at your cards) or "seen" (after viewing them). Blind players bet at half the seen rate.
- Players can fold, call, or raise each round. The last player standing or the player with the best hand at showdown wins the pot.
- At JL568, Teen Patti runs with real opponents in real-time multiplayer tables.
Casino War — The Basics
Casino War is the simplest card game at JL568. It's literally high card wins.
- Place your bet. You and the dealer are each dealt one card face up.
- The higher card wins. If your card is higher, you win even money. If the dealer's card is higher, you lose.
- Tie: You can Surrender and get half your bet back, or go to War — you and the dealer both place equal additional bets, three cards are burned, and one more is dealt to each. Higher card wins the War bet. Ties during War pay a 3:1 bonus.
- Card rankings follow standard poker order. Suit doesn't matter.
- Minimum bet at JL568 starts at ₱20 — great for testing your luck without risking much.
