Pai Gow Poker Strategy For UK Casinos
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Pai Gow Poker Strategy
Pai Gow expert Stanford Wong has been quoted as saying that being dealer/banker as often as possible has the most significant impact on a winning strategy. Now this is all very well when you're at your local casino, but not too helpful online, since few internet casinos allow you to be the dealer/banker. But there are still a number of handy tips on hand selection that will help your dollar go a lot further.
Set out below are optimum hand selections based on cards dealt. For simplicity's sake, we have called any pair of 2's through 6's a "low pair", 7's through J's a "medium pair", and Q's through A's a "high pair".
| Your hand | 5-card hand selection | 2-card hand |
| No Pair: | the highest card | next two highest cards |
| One pair: | the pair | next two highest cards |
| Two Pair: | ||
| Pair of A's and any other Pair: | high pair | other pair |
| Two High Pair: | best pair | other pair |
| High Pair and Medium Pair | high pair | medium pair |
| High Pair and Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| High Pair & Low pair w/out A or K | highest pair | low pair |
| Two Medium Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Two Medium Pair without A or K | best pair | other pair |
| Medium Pair & Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Medium Pair & Low Pair w/out A or K | medium pair | low pair |
| Two Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Two Low Pair without A or K | best pair | other pair |
| Three Pair: | second and third highest pair | highest pair |
| Three of a kind: | ||
| Three A's | pair of A's | A and next highest card |
| All others | three of a kind | two highest remaining cards |
| Three of a twice: | lower three of a kind | highest pair |
| Full House: | ||
| With two pairs | full house with low pair | highest pair |
| Pair is 2's with A or K | full house | A or K |
| All others | three of a kind | the pair |
| Straight, flush & Royal Flush: | ||
| With no pair | lowest full hand | two highest cards |
| With one or two Pair | lowest full hand | 2 highest cards, pair or o/wise |
| With Three of a Kind | full hand | pair |
| With Full House | three of a kind | pair |
| With Three of a Kind twice | lower three | highest two |
| Four of a kind: | ||
| With Three of a Kind | four of a kind | pair from the three of a kind |
| With a Pair | four of a kind | pair |
| Four A's | pair of A's | pair of A's |
| J's through K's with an A | four of a kind | the A |
| J's through K's without an A | one pair from the four | the other pair |
| 7's through 10's with A or K | four of a kind | A or K |
| 7's through 10's without A or K | one pair from the four | the other pair |
| 2's through 6's | four of a kind | highest remaining two |
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