Double-hand Poker is a modern game with old ancestry. Based on the old Chinese tile game and the modern American version of poker, Pai Gow poker bands together the east with the wild west in an excellent game for starting gamblers.
Pai Gow is a poker game that puts the player vs. the dealer, not like almost all other poker games that players wager against other gamblers. By betting against the dealer, beginning players don’t need to fret about other, more experienced people taking their moolla.
An additional Pai Gow benefit is the relatively leisurely game pace, newcomers will be able to take their time and strategize without having to make frenzied selections.
It’s also much simpler to play for a long time with basically a tiny amount of cash since, to not win, both of your hands must be lower than both of the houses hands.
Pai Gow is played with 53 cards; the customary 52-card standard deck and a single joker. The player is dealt 7 cards face up and the dealer is given 7 cards faces hidden.
One five card hand and one 2 card hand must be made from the 7 cards dealt, the 5 card hand must be better than the 2 card hand. To win, a player needs both of his hand totals to be larger than the dealer’s.