Pai Gow Poker is a cutting-edge game with old ancestry. Founded on the old Chinese domino game and the modern American variation of poker, Pai Gow poker joins the east with the wild west in an excellent game for new gamblers.
Pai Gow is a poker game that puts the gambler against the casino, unlike almost all other poker games that gamblers compete against other gamblers. By gambling against the dealer, beginner players do not need to be concerned about any other, more skillful people taking their money.
An additional Pai Gow edge is the fairly slow game play, novices can take their time and scheme without needing to make frenzied decisions.
It is also much simpler to gamble on for a very long time with basically a small amount of cash since, to lose, each of your hands must be under each of the dealer’s hands.
Pai Gow is played with 53 cards; the familiar 52-card standard deck and one joker. The player is assigned seven cards face up and the casino receives 7 cards face down.
A five card hand and a 2 card hand need to be put together from the 7 cards dealt, the five card hand has to be better than the two card hand. To win, a player is required to have both of his hand values to be larger than the casino’s.