What is Pai Gow Poker?

Pai Gow is a westernized adaptation of a Chinese favorite. It is played with a 53 card deck, including a joker. The object of the game is for you to create two poker hands out of the seven cards in your hand: a five-card poker hand and a two-card poker hand.

Learn Pai Gow Poker Rules

The five-card hand must rank higher than the two-card hand. You begin by making a wager and then you and the dealer receive 7 cards which you must arrange into your five and two card hand. The five-card hand is ranked as in standard poker, with the exception that an A-2-3-4-5 straight is the second highest straight. The two-card hand will either be a pair or two individual cards. The highest two-card hand is a pair of aces and the lowest is a 2-3. Your five-card hand is then compared to the dealer's five-card hand. Likewise the player's two-card hand is compared to the dealer's two-card hand. The highest hand wins.

In the event of an exact match between the dealers hand and your hand (called a copy) the tie goes to the banker. If you want to up the ante, you can choose to use the Fortune Side Bet option.

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