How to Play Pai Gow Poker

Video Transcript

"Have you ever heard of a poker game called Pai Gow poker? Pai Gow poker is actually a pretty simple game to learn. You would get dealt seven cards, and out of those seven cards, what you have to do is you have to make two separate hands of poker. You would take a five card hand, and you would take a two card hand. Now, your five card hand must be better than your two card hand. That is if you have two kings and your five, you can then assign any ah..any of the other cards the two cards, as long as they don't beat those two kings, which would obviously be two aces. So you could have two kings in your five card hand, and you could have two queens in your two card hand, which by the way would obviously be a very good ah hand for Pai Gow. Now you're playing against the dealer in Pai Gow. You can win one, or the other hand, or you can win both hands. So, which, which is kind of rare, and ties are actually pretty common in Pai Gow. So at the end of all the betting, you would then turn over your cards. The dealer will turn over their cards, and you would then check to see if your five hand...if your five card hand beat their five card hand. If you did, you would win that bet for that hand. You would then look at your two card hand, see how it fared against the dealer's two card hand. If you beat them, well know you've just uh...you've done a double-whammy as we speak, and you would get to win that one also, and you would take that bet back. If you should lose the second bet, the dealer would get it, and obviously you would've broken even on that, that hand. So, remember, you get dealt seven cards, and the opt, the thee, the idea is to make two hands. One with five cards, one with two cards. Remember the five card hand has to be better than the two card hand. My name is Dean Hale and I just taught you how to play Pai Gow poker. Good luck."