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Pai Gow Poker
Pai-gow poker is a banking poker game played in
Las Vegas and some of the California card clubs. The entity
of pai-gow poker is to make two poker hands that beat the banker's
hands. The player is dealt 7 cards that he makes into a five
card hand (high hand) and a two card hand (low hand). The hands
are played and ranked as customary poker hands (with one exception:
A2345 is the second highest straight), and the 5 card hand must
be higher than the 2 card hand. If both hands are better than
the banker's hand, you win, if both lose, you lose, or else
it's a push. The banker wins total ties (i.e. K Q vs K Q).
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The game is played with a 52 cards plus one joker.
The joker can be used as an Ace or to complete a flush or straight.
The table layout has 7 spots one in front of the dealer and
6 for players, like this:
Each player spot has spaces for a bet, low hand, high hand and
from time to time the house commission. The dealer deals 7 7-card
hands in front of the chip tray. The banker can be a player,
but is more often than not the house. The banker assigns which
hands go to which player by shaking a dice cup with three dice;
the banker's position is either 1, 8 or 15 and the hands are
passed out counterclockwise. So, if the dealer is the bank and
the dice total to 6, player 5 gets the first hand, player 6
gets the second, the dealer gets the third and so on. The dice
mumbo-jumbo appears to be ritual stuff --- you don't need to
worry about anything until you get your hand. |
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