Pai Gow Poker is a modern game with ancient ancestry. Founded on the ancient Chinese domino game and the current American version of poker, Pai Gow poker joins the far east with the western in an awesome game for beginning level gamblers.
Pai Gow is a poker game that puts the player vs. the dealer, unlike almost all other poker games that players bet against other players. By gambling against the dealer, new players don’t have to worry about other, more advanced players winning their moolla.
One more Pai Gow benefit is the relatively slow game play, novices should be able to take their time and strategize while not needing to make quick choices.
It is also much simpler to bet on for an extended time with only a little amount of cash after all, to not win, each of your hands needs to be lower than each of the dealer’s hands.
Pai Gow uses 53 cards; the normal 52-card common deck and a single joker. The player is given 7 cards faces showing and the dealer gets seven cards faces hidden.
One 5 card hand and a two card hand must be put together from the seven cards dealt, the five card hand must be better than the two card hand. To win, a player needs both of his hand values to be better than the dealer’s.