Wong Kai Ming
Chinese Card Games Editor
Kai Ming covers the card games Malaysians learn at home rather than in a casino, and the practical business of running a table.
What Kai Ming is responsible for
Kai Ming covers the card games most Malaysians meet at a family table rather than in a casino: Big Two above all, and the neighbouring games that get dealt at the same gatherings. He also edits the practical material: what is actually in a deck, what a set of chips is for, how a home table is seated and who deals.
These games are the hardest thing on the site to write about accurately, because none of them has a governing body or a definitive rulebook. The names change with the dialect. The scoring changes from one household to the next. Whether the suits rank, and in what order, is settled locally and nowhere else.
How he decides what goes on a page
His rule for the section is simple and it is the opposite of what most sites do: name the variant being described, describe it completely, then list the common local variations, rather than quietly picking one version and presenting it as the correct one. A reader who arrives with their family's rules should be able to find them mentioned rather than contradicted.
Where a game genuinely is folk-transmitted, the page says so. He would rather write "this varies, and here is how" than invent an authority that does not exist. That honesty is also the most useful thing on the page, because the argument at a real table is almost always about which variation everyone is playing.
The equipment material is his for the same reason. A home game falls apart over practical things: not enough chips to make the denominations work, a deck with a card missing, nobody sure who deals next. None of that is covered by the rules of any game.
What he does not claim
There is no qualification to hold in Big Two and he does not pretend otherwise, nor does this page attach an employer, a title from elsewhere or a competitive record to his name. What he brings is a refusal to flatten a family of living, locally-varied games into one tidy rulebook that would be wrong in half the country.