Let us learn a diverse kind of poker other than hold’em, five card stud, 5 card draw and Omaha. Yes, pai-gow poker. Now you need to be wondering that pai gow sounds a bit Chinese; yes you are appropriate this game is really a mixture of the Chinese game pai-gow and our very own Yankee poker. Certainly this isn’t one of the most well-liked styles of poker but still it’s widely bet. It might be wagered by up to seven players.
It is wagered with one deck of fifty-two cards, plus a joker. Interestingly, the joker may be used only as an ace, to complete a straight, a flush, a straight flush, or a royal flush. The essential thing here to remember is other than the usual ranking of hands we have 1 more winning hand that is "Five Aces" (5 aces including the joker). Amazingly, five aces defeat all other hands which includes royal flush.
Every gambler is dealt 7 cards. The cards are set up to form 2 hands; a 2 card hand and a five card hand. The 5 card hand must rank greater or be equal to the two card hand. Finally both of your hands have to rank higher than each of your competitors hands (both 5 and 2 card hands). Additionally the two card hand can only have two permutations; 1 pair and high card.
Immediately after the cards are arranged in to two hands, they are positioned on the table face down. Once you put them down, you may no longer handle them. The croupier will turn over their cards and make his hands. Each and every players hand is compared to the croupier’s hands. If the gambler is victorious on one hand and manages to lose the other, this is identified as "push" and no money is won or lost. If croupier wins both hands then they captures the gamblers stake and vice versa. Now what if there’s a tie, the only benefit with the dealer here is he/she wins all ties.
Soon after the hand is played, the next individual clock-wise becomes the croupier and the next hand is bet. The major drawback to this game is that there’s no skill required and you depend too much on good fortune. Also the odds are inadequate compared to playing with a pot.