Double-hand Poker is a cutting-edge game with ancient origins. Based on the ancient Chinese tile game and the current American variation of poker, Pai Gow poker joins the east with the wild west in an excellent game for starting gamblers.
Pai Gow is a poker game that pits the gambler against the casino, unlike almost all other poker games that players wager against other players. By competing against the dealer, starting players do not need to fret about other, more advanced people taking their money.
Another Pai Gow advantage is the generally slow game play, novices should be able to take their time and strategize without needing to make frenzied choices.
It’s also easier to play for a very long time with basically a tiny bit of money seeing as, to not win, each of your hands has to be lower than both of the casino’s hands.
Pai Gow is played with 53 cards; the regular 52-card standard deck and one joker. The player is assigned seven cards face up and the casino receives seven cards face down.
One five card hand and a two card hand need to be put together from the seven cards, the 5 card hand has to be higher than the two card hand. To succeed, a player needs both of his hand totals to be better than the houses.