Pai Gow Poker History

Pai Gow Poker History

Pai Gow Poker game was first ever played in china and it?s a very old Chinese gambling and the term Pai Gow means ?make nine?. This Pai Gow game is believed to be more than thousand years where Chinese used to plays dominoes tiles but in modern edition of Pai Gow cards are used for the game. This Pai Gow Poker game is played with a deck of 52 cards, a joker and a set of six players and the dealer. Joker is used as a wild card and it can also use in straight, flush or act like as Ace. To win the game every player has to bet the dealer.

In this game, dealer will dealt seven cards to the player and player need to set their seven cards into two parts. In one part counted five cards and the other part counted two card, they need to know that the value of their two cards must not go beyond their five cards. The five cards hand will be called higher, or more and the two card hand can be called as the lower or less.

After every game, the dealer will shuffle the cards and serve to player with seven cards which facing each pile downwards and the remaining four cards will kept as it is in spite of player drawn in. Betting game will starts form the dealer according to clockwise and number assign to them from 1 to 7.

The only changes in existing cards game are that they used cards instead of dominoes tiles. In Pai Poker the player need to know that their five cards hand must be higher than the two cards and if they did not, their game will be regard as foul. Since there are some changes in styles and rules with compare to ancient game, in 19th century the rules changed when Pai Gow poker begins very popular in china. We can not say that how the Poker rules change and cannot make out much about the poker game. This game is mainly based on dominoes tiles but here the change is you played with a card not tiles. In some way Pai Gow is little bit similar with Poker, some rules may also be added or if required it will changed.

It was during 1980?s when this game Pai Gow Poker paved away to America and many Chinese people migrate to California to start a living and make money. In 1987 Las Vegas get started to play Pai Gow Poker but in some place like Atlantic City which took a long time to start the game. Slowly and slowly, the Pai Gow games become very popular and even many people plays online games of pai-Gow.

Pai Gow is simple to learn and easy to play, it?s a game which suits for the beginners as well as experienced players. The main benefit of playing this game against other casino game is a very little finance is enough for a player to stay back in the game thought it?s a very slow game.