Pai Gow Poker

Plays 6, Seated

Pai Gow is played with a standard 52-card deck, plus a single joker. Each player attempts to defeat the dealer.  The object of Pai Gow poker is for a player to create two poker hands out of the seven-card hand he/she is dealt by the dealer: a five-card hand, and a two-card poker hand. According to the rules, the five-card hand’s value must exceed the two-card hand’s, and that is why the two-card hand is often called the hand “in front” or “on top” or “hair”, or the “small” or “minor” or “low” hand.