Pai Gow Poker (or Double-hand poker)
Pai Gow poker can be played by up to 7 players and was
first invented in China as a domino game. This game is
played with a 53 card deck which includes the joker. When
using the joker as a wild card, it can only be used as an
ace, or to complete a straight, a flush or a straight flush.
It has a rather low variance and a small buy in will usually
last quite awhile.
Before the cards are dealt, each of the other players puts
up a stake and then seven cards are dealt to each player.
The dealer does NOT look at his cards but all the players
are able to look at theirs. They then divide them into two
hands, one being a two-card hand and the other, a five-card
hand.
The values of the hands are about the same as in poker;
however there are some differences, one being that five aces
is the highest hand, beating a straight flush. For the
two-card hand, a pair would beat any two-card hands that
don't match, but there are no other possible combinations.
The dealer has the advantage because he wins the tied hands
so it's only fair to let everyone be the dealer an equal
number of times throughout the session. Pai gow poker isn't
the easiest form of poker to learn as far as a strategy
goes, but once you start playing, you learn the hang of it
and it can be a very entertaining game.
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