MEGAPERYA Sakla — the Spanish-Deck Game Played at Wakes
Sakla is a Spanish-deck betting game played at Filipino wakes, where bettors back one of five card pairs and a banker pays whichever pair turns up first.
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Sakla is a Spanish-deck betting game most associated with Filipino wakes, where it fills the overnight hours mourners spend keeping watch. This page covers the deck, the five pairs the whole game is built on, and where sakla stands next to a licensed lobby’s games — sakla sits inside MEGAPERYA’s perya games hub alongside pula puti, cara y cruz and beto beto.
What Is Sakla — the Spanish-Deck Game Explained
Suit (Spanish name)
Cards in play
Swords (espadas)
Ace through 7, plus king, horse and jack
Clubs (bastos)
Ace through 7, plus king, horse and jack
Cups (copas)
Ace through 7, plus king, horse and jack
Coins (oros)
Ace through 7, plus king, horse and jack
A standard 48-card Spanish deck loses its 8s and 9s for sakla, leaving 40 cards across the four suits above. That trimmed deck is what every sakla board and every sakla card game session runs on.
Sakla Card Game: The Five Winning Pairs
Pair
Cards involved
Ace and king
The two top cards of a suit
2 and 3
The low-number pair
4 and 5
The middle-low pair
6 and 7
The middle-high pair
Horse and jack
The two remaining picture cards
Every bet on a sakla board is a bet on one of these five pairs, never on a single card. The pair that surfaces first when cards are dealt or turned is the one the banker pays.
Sakla Rules: How a Round Is Played
Bettors place stakes on the board space for whichever pair they’re backing, up to a maximum the banker sets before the round.
The banker deals or turns cards from the trimmed deck, one at a time.
Play stops the moment a card completes one of the five pairs.
The banker pays every bet placed on that pair; every other stake stays with the bank.
Sakla Online vs a Licensed Lobby
MEGAPERYA is on PAGCOR’s registered-brands list, entry 59, 27 August 2026, for Electronic Casino Games, Specialty Games and Numeric Games — the licensed, regulated category structure sakla sits outside of whenever a private banker runs it at a wake instead of through an accredited operator. Moving a game online never changes that line on its own; what changes it is whether the operator running it holds a PAGCOR listing in the first place. The online perya explainer covers what else shifts when a booth game like this one moves onto a screen.
Sakla vs Cara Y Cruz and the Rest of the Perya Table
Game
Format
What decides the round
Sakla
Banking game, five fixed pairs
Which pair a dealt card completes first
Cara y cruz
Even-money, two outcomes
Which side a tossed coin lands on
Pula puti
Board game, mostly two outcomes
Where a ball, die or wheel settles
Sakla is the only one of the three built around a banker paying out several possible winning bets in a single round rather than one plain outcome — see cara y cruz’s own rules for the simplest version of the alternative.
FAQ
What is sakla?
A Spanish-deck betting game built around five fixed card pairs. Bettors back a pair on the board, a banker deals or reveals cards, and the pair that turns up first is paid.
What cards does sakla use?
A 48-card Spanish deck with the 8s and 9s removed, leaving 40 cards across four suits — swords, clubs, cups and coins — plus the king, horse and jack as the picture cards.
Is sakla legal in the Philippines?
Not when a private banker runs it, including at a wake. The card logic sakla is built on can appear inside a PAGCOR-licensed operator's approved game categories; a wake-night table run by a private banker is a separate, unlicensed activity.
Why is sakla played at wakes specifically?
Filipino wakes traditionally run overnight over several evenings, and sakla is one of several betting games that fill those hours while mourners keep watch — a custom rather than a rule of the game itself.
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