Online Pai Gow Poker

Pai Gow Poker is a card game. It derives from a Chinese tile game known as Pai Gow. Pai Gow Tiles and Pai Gow Poker are two separate games and should not be confused. Properly speaking, "Pai Gow" refers to the domino-like game, and "Pai Gow Poker" applies to the game played with cards.

The uniqueness in the game is that you being a participant can also request for being the banker. In that case, other participants now compare hands with you rather than the dealer. Now, you are the one, who collects all the spoils in case of winning and pays to the in case of loosing. The commission for a house dealer is 5 percent when you become a banker on all winning hands.

From a strategy point of view, there is little a player can do to control outcomes, as there are only two decisions involved in the play: how much to bet and how to set the hand. As the edge of the banker is a little better than that of a player, minimizing bets as a player and maximizing bets as a banker will improve the edge; unfortunately, the banker does not have control over how big the bets are when he or she becomes banker; they are set by the individual players. The dealer’s bet is the same as the new banker’s last bet when he or she was a player, so that provides a little influence. The “house way” of setting cards has been studied and tweaked by both experts and casinos. It is designed to maximize the power of the banker’s hands. Therefore, it is probably the best strategy for the beginning player as well. Some minor aspects of the “house way” can be selectively improved upon, but the influence is in the hundredths of a percentage point. This leaves little manoeuvring room for strategy modification in Pai Gow poker.

You can find Pai Gow online in most Casinos in the poker web world. It is a fascinating touch given to the classical style of poker games and might work well with players, who require variety in poker games.