Pai Gow game that you can nowadays play in all largest US casinos online originated in China actually. This card game has a very long history in Asian countries. However, it was brought to the United States only in 1980s by Chinese immigrants. It appeared in largest Las Vegas brick-and-mortar gambling establishments back in 1987. Probably this game never enjoyed such huge popularity as slot machines or video poker, although it is really exciting and profitable especially if you play it in US casinos online.
Pai Gow Poker is basically a combination of traditional poker and Chinese card game. You can enjoy both download and no-download variants of this game on the largest US gambling sites. The main advantage of this game is probably the easiness of its rules and winning strategies. So, if you are bored with playing traditional poker, you should pay a special attention to this game and its rules explained below.
The game starts after you place an ante bet. Then both you and a computer will be dealt 7 cards. You need to divide all these cards into 2 hands- high hand that should consist of 5 cards and a low hand that consists of two cards. The main goal of the game is to collect stronger hands than hands of a computer. Five cards hand should have one of the qualifying poker hands with Royal Flush being the strongest poker combination( By the way a combination from ace to 5 is also qualifies as straight in Pai Gow poker). The best combination that you can have in a two cards hand is evidently a pair. If both your hands are stronger than banker’s hands, then you win and the payout is usually 1 to 1( 5%commission fee is applied). If you win only one hand, but lose the second one, such situation is called a push. In this case you will receive your bet back. If both your hands lose, you lose. If there is a tie, you lose automatically. By the way, you should always remember that a high hand should be always stronger than a low hand, otherwise it’s called a foul and you lose your bet.
The Pai Gow poker is played with 52 cards deck and one joker that can replace any other card in flushes, straights and flush straights. In all other hands it acts as an ace. This wild card actually increases players’ chances to collect a winning combination. As for effective strategies that can be used to increase your chances in Pai Gow, you can actually make only 2 strategic decisions in this game. First of all, you need to decide the amount of the ante bet, and the second, you need to figure out how todivide 7 cards into 2 hands. We’d like to describe you the simplest strategy of dividing cards in Pai Gow. Statistics show that the strongest combination for a 5-card hand is 2 pairs while the best combination for 2-card hands is evidently a pair. The simplest strategy is not to split low pairs( lower than 6s or lower than 10s if you have an ace in hand). For example, if you have A 10 10 6 6 4 2 you shouldn’t split the pair and get a low land of A and 5 and a high hand of 10 10 6 6 4. However, there are some hands where you don’t have any pairs. They are called a ‘Pai Gow’.
Therefore, Pai Gow is a very exciting and simple game offered in the largest US casinos online. If you have ever played traditional poker before, you will have absolutely no problems with Pai Gow as well. By the way, each hand takes some time to play, therefore players with a small bankroll will be able to enjoy the gambling process much longer.
