For beginners, Pai Gow poker is one of the friendliest poker games, which comes from China and is played for fouls. In an online casino, you can play it against a one-on-one dealer, even if there are more of you at the table. If you play classic draw poker or Texas Holdem Poker, you won't have a problem getting into the game. But even a beginner will quickly understand the rules.
Pai-Gow Poker is a Poker variant based on the Chinese domino game Pai Gow
It’s a slow-paced Casino card game with easy-to-learn rules and strategy
The best Pai-Gow Poker strategy is explained in this article
Poker is rightfully one of the most popular card games in the world.
Being so popular it gave birth to many Casino games based on it: Casino Hold’em, Video Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker, Three Card Poker, and Pai Gow Poker.
Pai Gow Poker is one of the newer variants, introduced only in 1986. While it's based on the domino game, it takes Poker games to a completely different level.
When you play Pai-Gow Poker, the dealer (in Pai-Gow called the banker) uses a 53-card deck. It consists of the standard 52-card deck and a single Joker.
This Joker works as a wild card and can help you complete a Straight, Flush, Straight Flush, or can be used as an Ace.
Keep in mind: it doesn’t work as a wild card in other cases.
The game starts after the players place their bets. When we talk about online Pai-Gow Poker, you make that call alone.
After placing the wager, you get seven cards.
Your high hand must be of a higher Poker value than the low hand.
If it’s not, it’s a foul. When playing at brick-and-mortar Casinos, it will certainly make the Casino take your money.
And it’s the stupidest way to lose your bet, I may add.
But when you play online, the platform is generous enough to warn you that you make a bad move and need to adjust your hands.
Five Aces is the highest hand (thanks to Joker), then goes Royal Flush, Straight Flush (highest one being Ace-2-3-4-5 hand), Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight (Ace-2-3-4-5 being the second highest) and then follows the classic Poker hand rank - you know the drill.
The dealer then sets their hand in a similar fashion to predetermined rules.
When you don’t use any strategy and play randomly, the house edge of Pai-Gow Poker is around 2.84 percent.
That’s higher than European Roulette (2.70 percent house edge) which is essentially a game of chance.
Contrary to Roulette, you can use an optimal strategy to avoid foolish mistakes.
When you adopt an optimal Pai-Gow Poker strategy, you will see the house edge drop to approximately 2.54 percent.