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Newcomer Schemes for Double-Hand Poker

Pai Gow Poker is a current game with old ancestry. Built on the old Chinese tile game and the modern American adaptation of poker, Pai Gow poker combines the eastern with the west in an excellent game for starting players.

Pai Gow is a poker game that pits the player against the dealer, not like almost all other poker games that players bet with other gamblers. By gambling against the dealer, new players do not need to be concerned about any other, more experienced players winning their moolla.

One more Pai Gow benefit is the generally slow game play, rookies can take their time and plan while not needing to make hasty decisions.

It is also simpler to bet on for a very long time with only a tiny bit of money since, to not win, each of your hands has to be under both of the houses hands.

Pai Gow is played with 53 cards; the normal 52-card basic deck and one joker. The player is assigned seven cards faces showing and the croupier is given 7 cards face down.

A 5 card hand and one 2 card hand have to be put together from the 7 cards dealt, the five card hand has to be better than the 2 card hand. To win, a player needs both of his hand values to be better than the casino’s.