How To Play Pai Gow Poker?
Rules –
Fortune Pai Gow uses the standard deck of cards, including the joker. Your aim to win the game is to hold two strong hands cards out of seven cards. Players compete against the house, and the side with the strongest hands at the end is declared the winner. At the start, you will be dealt seven cards. You then have to choose two cards to make the low hand, and the remaining five cards make up the high hand. When splitting the cards into a high and low hand, it is vital to ensure that the high hand is stronger than the low hand. For instance, a low hand with a pair of six cards requires the high hand to be a pair of sevens or higher. The house side reveals their hands first, followed by the players. If only one hand is stronger than those of the house, a push is declared. You win if both hands are stronger and lose your bet if both hands are weaker than the house. You can place the Fortune Bet, an optional side bet which considers all seven cards. The cards must make up a Straight or better when combined to win the side bet. Winning the side bet is easy because the joker card is a wild card in Fortune Pai Gow. In other words, it replaces cards to complete a Straight, Flush, Straight Flush, or Royal Flush and is taken as an Ace when not completing a hand.
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How do you play Pai Gow Poker and win?
To make a profit on a hand of Pai Gow game, you’ll need to beat both of the dealer’s hands, so making a very strong hand at the back while having something like 9-high at the top usually won’t cut it. You’re much better off having two fairly strong hands than having one super-strong hand coupled with air.
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What are the odds in Pai Gow Poker?
Pai Gow Poker has a standard house edge of 2.84%. There is however a way to lower that edge to around 1.42%. This is done by playing as the ‘Banker’.
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Is Pai Gow Poker a good game?
Pai Gow Poker offers a very low house edge compared to most table games. It has an edge at 1.46%, which is better than blackjack with no strategy, single zero roulette at 2.7%, and American Roulette, which comes in at 5.26%.
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What does 5 aces pay in Pai Gow?
Fortune Bonus – Pai Gow
| Hand Value | Fortune Bonus Payout | Envy Bonus (Bet of $5 or greater) |
|---|---|---|
| 7-Card Straight Flush with Joker | 1,000 to 1 | $500 |
| Five Aces | 400 to 1 | $250 |
| Royal Flush | 150 to 1 | $50 |
| Straight Flush | 50 to 1 | $20 |
How to make money at Pai Gow?
The Fortune Side Bet – The secret to Pai Gow lies with the fortune side bet. Whenever you play a hand of Pai Gow, you are offered the chance to put some additional money in a side pot that pays out like a slot machine depending on what hands you’re dealt in the regular game.
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Should you bet fortune in pai gow?
Pai gow poker: Don’t get suckered into side bets QUESTION: With fortune pai gow poker, how bad are the odds on the bonus fortune bet? — Ray C. ANSWER: pai gow poker is a hybrid of Chinese dominos, pai gow and American seven-card poker. Played with a standard 52-card deck plus a joker, it differs from the typical seven-card game in that you play against a banker, not against other players at the table. The pai gow house edge playing house rules against a player who does not bank (acts as the banker for other players to play against) is 2.84%. Most of that edge, 1.27%, comes from players losing a tie to the bank. The remainder comes from the 5% commission paid on winning hands. Fortune pai gow poker is a popular variant played in casinos today. The game is exactly like pai gow poker with the exception of an optional fortune bonus side bet. Ray, whenever the casino proposes a wager that requires you to put more money on the layout, it most likely is offering you a losing proposition. Better stated, it is a sucker bet that carries a high house edge. The fortune bonus is a side bet that pays strictly on the value of a player’s seven cards and not how the player sets his or her hand. In addition, if another player has a four-of-a-kind or better, the player making the fortune bet will get what is called an envy bonus, a bonus that is paid when other players at the table make a certain pay table hand. To qualify for the envy bonus, typically a minimum of $5 must be bet on the fortune bonus. Based on a typical pay table, the fortune bonus pai gow wager has a house edge of nearly 8% before considering the envy bonus. With the envy wager, you can subtract approximately 1% for each additional player at the table. I recommend, Ray, that you stay clear of a fortune bonus pai gow wager. pai gow poker already has some of the best odds/money return of most casino games outside of craps or blackjack, so don’t give the casino any more of your hard-earned money than you have to. Q: I recently played at the MGM Grand in Detroit. I asked an employee to help me find the 9/6 machines that were for jacks-or-better. We searched all over, and the best he could find were some 8/5 machines. There were also many 7/5 machines. I did manage to win a little on the 8/5 but not as much as I had at Greektown Casino, which does have 9/6 machines. Can you tell me what the different odds are on a 9/6 versus an 8/5 and a 7/5? — Mike O. A: I am pleased to see, Mike, that you are on the hunt for full-pay (9/6) jacks-or-better machines. They are just not that easy to find anymore, but once located, if you employ basic strategy, your expected payback is 99.544%. However, you must take into account that those high returns are predicated on your hitting the royal flush. The royal flush is so dominant in the casino payout calculations for video poker that it is going to cost you 12% over the long run while you burn through your bankroll chasing a suited 10, jack, queen, king, and ace. Now compare that to the reduced return of an 8/5 game, 97.3%, and a 7/5 machine that returns 96.2% with five coins inserted. Mark Pilarski is a contributing editor for numerous gambling publications. E-mail questions to [email protected]. : Pai gow poker: Don’t get suckered into side bets
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