Pai Gow Poker
Pia Gow poker is a casino table game based on the Chinese Pai Gow domino game.
The difference being a 52 card standard deck plus one joker are used instead of dominoes.
The joker is considered wild and can be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush or a straight flush.
Hand rankings are based on poker hand rankings. Pia Gow can be played by up to 7 players at a time.
How To Play Pai Gow Poker
In Pai Gow Poker you are dealt seven cards and the dealer is dealt seven cards.
Before the deal, each of the other players puts up an ante.
You divide your cards into a five-card hand and two-card hand. Your two hands are then compared to the dealer's two hands.
The goal of Pai Gow Poker is to get a better five-card hand and two-card hand than the dealer.
Pia Gow Poker Hand rankings
The values of the five card hand is the same as in poker, with acouple exceptions.
A-2-3-4-5 is the second highest type of straight or straight flush, only a royal flush or a A-K-Q-J-10 beats it.
Five aces is the highest hand, beating even a straight flush.
Winning Ay Pia Gow Poker
You have higher-ranked five-card and two-card poker hands than the dealer the dealer pays out the amount anted by the player
If the dealer wins one hand and the player wins the other no money changes hands,this is considered a push.
If the dealer wins both hands the player loses ante.
If you tie the dealer, the dealer wins the tie for that hand.
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