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HOW TO PLAY PAI GOW
Objective Bets are placed and the player receives seven cards. From these
seven cards the player forms two hands: a two-card hand called the "low"
or "front" hand; a five-card hand called the "high"
or "back" hand. The objective is to beat the dealer on both
hands. The back hand is ranked as in Poker with the omission that A-2-3-4-5
is the second-highest straight beating K-Q-J-10-9. The front hand is singles
or a pair, with A-A being the highest.
There are a few extra rules. First, your
front hand must not beat your back. If it does, this is
called a "foul" and both hands lose. Second, the
Joker can be used as a wild card to complete a Straight,
a Flush, a Straight Flush or a Royal Flush or else it is
treated as an Ace.
Betting
Betting in most online games is very straightforward
in that you make a single opening bet and that is the end
of it. In some Pai Gow games, there are split bets for the
front and back hands, but this is abnormal in on-line play.
If both hands lose to the dealer, you lose
your bet. If both hands win, you win even money. If one
hand wins and the other loses, it's a push. If your hands
are similar as the dealer's, called "copies",
the dealer wins. Clearly, that’s an attraction of playing
dealer/banker in multi-player games. In such games, you
reduce your losses by betting low when you are a player
and being dealer/banker when possible.
If the player wins, the house takes a 5%
commission: you get $4.75 of a $5 winning bet.
There are a number of issues connected to
the multi-player games when it comes to the dealer/banker
question. Bear in mind, that none of this applies to classic
single-player on-line play.
Dealer/Banker: In multi-player Pai Gow games the bank
rotates from person to person, where a player may pass the deal if they
decide. If you want to deal you must have sufficient money on the table
to broker all other bets made. If you are uncomfortable with the full
risk of banking, another player may co-bank with you as dealer and the
two of you will split the wins and losses. The house will bank if no player
is keen to do it. If a player is banking, the dealer can be a player,
wagering as the banker asks. If a player is the banker then the dealer
will first evaluate their own hands to that of the banker and make the
suitable payments. Then the dealer will take the banker's cards and compare
them to the other players, using the banker's money. Well now you know
how to play Pai Gow so move on to our next section.
