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Pai-gow Poker is an American card-playing derivative of the centuries-old casino game of Chinese Dominoes. In the early 1800’s, Chinese laborers introduced the game while working in California.

The game’s popularity with Chinese gamblers eventually drew the interest of entrepreneurial gamers who substituted the standard tiles with cards and shaped the casino game into a new form of poker. Introduced into the poker suites of California in 1986, the game’s instant acclaim and popularity with Asian poker gamblers drew the interest of Nevada’s betting house owners who quickly absorbed the casino game into their own poker rooms. The reputation of the game has continued into the 21st century.

Double-hand tables cater to up to 6 players plus a dealer. Distinguishing from conventional poker, all players wager on against the dealer and not against every other.

In a counterclockwise rotation, every gambler is dealt 7 face down cards by the croupier. Forty-nine cards are dealt, including the croupier’s 7 cards.

Each gambler and the dealer must form 2 poker hands: a high hands of five cards and also a low hand of two cards. The hands are based on common poker rankings and as such, a 2 card hand of 2 aces would be the greatest possible hand of 2 cards. A 5 aces hand would be the highest 5 card hands. How do you receive five aces in a standard fifty-two card deck? You are actually playing with a fifty-three card deck since one joker is permitted into the casino game. The joker is considered a wild card and could be used as an additional ace or to complete a straight or flush.

The highest two hands win every single game and only a single gambler having the 2 highest hands simultaneously can win.

A dice toss from a cup containing three dice determines who will be given the first hand. After the hands are given, gamblers must form the two poker hands, keeping in mind that the five-card hand must constantly rank larger than the two-card palm.

When all players have set their hands, the dealer will produce comparisons with his or her hand position for pay-outs. If a player has one hands greater in position than the dealer’s but a lower 2nd hand, this is considered a tie.

If the dealer beats each hands, the gambler loses. In the case of both gambler’s hands and each croupier’s hands being the same, the dealer is the winner. In betting house play, ofttimes allowances are made for a gambler to become the croupier. In this situation, the player have to have the money for any payoffs due succeeding gamblers. Of course, the player acting as croupier can corner a number of huge pots if he can beat most of the gamblers.

Several casinos rule that players cannot deal or bank two consecutive hands, and some poker suites will offer to co-bank 50/50 with any player that elects to take the bank. In all cases, the dealer will ask players in turn if they want to be the banker.

In Double-hand Poker, that you are dealt "static" cards which means you have no opportunity to change cards to possibly improve your hands. Nonetheless, as in classic five-card draw, there are strategies to make the finest of what you’ve been dealt. An example is maintaining the flushes or straights in the five-card hand and the 2 cards remaining as the second good palm.

If you are lucky sufficient to draw four aces along with a joker, you’ll be able to maintain 3 aces in the five-card palm and strengthen your 2-card hands with the other ace and joker. Two pair? Retain the increased pair in the five-card hands and the other 2 matching cards will produce up the second palm.