This casino game has its base of origin from a Chinese card game known as “Pai Gow”. But Pai Gow Poker is quite different from it. A joker card is present in the deck of cards which makes it 53 in numbers; the number of cards in the deck that is. For this style of Poker you will have the banker as the sole opponent against whom you need the best hand to be a winner. Compared to the pace of the standard Poker games, Pai Gow Poker is slow and less energetic. You will encounter more number of ties in this game of Poker.
Instead of two cards being distributed to the players and 5 placed on the table, in this Poker game the player is given 7 cards with which the player needs to split them into a group of five and two cards. The five card group should be such that it resembles something like a Flush, Straight, Royal Flush, etc. which is famous in the game of Poker. The rest two cards work in pairs that is the highest valued pair is two Aces while the lowest is 2 and 3. The banker does the same but needs to follow certain rules. The better hand wins the game. We have Pai Gow and other varieties of Poker games for you to enjoy as well.
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