Pai Gow Poker Tips and Strategy

Pai Gow Poker Tips and Strategies

If the croupier or dealer is playing the banker for the Casino, the combination the hands for assembly are bound to the so-called “House ways”. These rules describe the optimal playing strategy for the banker – with smaller simplifications, and therefore House ways differ from Casino to Casino.

If one player is taking the position of the banker, he has not to obligated to abide to the House ways – however, it is recommendable to do so. In the following situations the rule is mirrored.

1. If the banker has no pair, he puts his highest card into his high hand and the next two highest cards into his low hand.

2. If the banker has one pair, he places the pair into his high hand and the two highest cards into his low hand.

3. If the banker has two pairs, he places both pairs into his high hand and the two highest cards into his low hand. In the following situations he has to split up the pairs and put the highest pair into his high hand and the lower pair into his low hand. Consider the following: One pair consists of two 7s or higher cards, and there is no ace as single card. The “higher pair” consists of at least two Js, the “lower pair” consists of at least two 6s, and there is one single ace.

4. If the banker has three pairs, he puts the highest pair into his low hand and the other two into his high hand.

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5. If the banker has three equal cards, he puts the triplet into his high hand and the pair into his low hand – except when there is a pair of 2s and the banker can put an ace and a king into his low hand – in this case, he puts a full house into his high hand.

6. If the banker has three equal cards and two pairs, he puts the higher pair into his low hand and takes the remaining cards as full house into his high hand.

7. If the banker has two times three equals, he puts two cards of the higher triplet into his low hand.

8. If the banker has a straight, flush, straight flush or a royal flush, the following rules apply: 1. The banker always puts a straight or flush into his high hand. In the following cases he plays the hand according to the rules for two pairs: - any two pairs and a single ace; - a pair of jacks and a pair of 6s; - a pair of aces and any additional pair. 2. If the banker has a straight or a flush out of six cards, he plays the highest possible low hand without destroying the straight or flush of his high hand. 3. If the banker has a straight flush and he is able to reconstruct it into a straight or flush in a way that he puts at least one jack into his low hand. Then he has to play the straight or flush of his high hand instead if the straight flush. 4. If the banker has a royal flush and he can reconstruct it into a straight or flush in a way that he can put at least one king into his low hand, he should play the straight or flush of his high hand instead of the royal flush.

9. If the banker has four equal cards, he plays according the rank of the quadruplet in the following way: 1. You never separate 2s and 6s and you put four equals into his high hand. 2. Jacks, Queens and kings will be split up into two pairs, except if the player has another pair of 10s or better. 3. Aces will always be separated, except when the player is able to put a pair of 7s or better into his low hand.

10. If the banker has five aces, he always split them up, except when he can put his pair of kings into his low hand.



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