Pai Gow poker is a card game available at today's leading online casinos. The objective behind the game is for a player to skillfully set two hands strong in order to win. The house enjoys a 2.3 percent advantage in this game, but that, of course, is only when you do everything you can to keep the house edge to its minimum.

Consider these quick and simple guidelines to begin with:

Try to make your two hands reasonably strong in order to win both - otherwise, you'll wind up with a tie.

Your back hand must be set higher than your front hand otherwise you'll "foul" your hand and lose your bet.

Next we'll move on to setting your hand. Follow the guide below to maximize your odds for beating the casino. This brief guide indicates what you should do with the most common hands. The first column represents what you have been dealt. The second and third column indicate how you should redistribute these cards.

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Pai Gow Poker is continuing to grow in popularity among visitors to online casinos, and it's easy to see why. For one thing, the game is very straight forward and one can get the hang of it very fast.

The goal in Pai Gow Poker is to divide your 7-card hand into a 5-card (Highest) and a 2-card hand (2nd Highest). The 5-card hand must always outrank the 2-card hand (thus the names Highest & 2nd Highest). The 5-card hand is ranked just like poker, but that an A-2-3-4-5 straight ranks as the second highest straight. The 2-card hand may be either an individual or pair of cards. A pair of aces is the highest 2-card hand & the lowest is a 2-3. Players can opt to split their hand themself, or have the computer divide it with the 'House Way' method explained below.

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Pai Gow Poker, or Double-Hand Poker as it is also known, is a combination of Poker and the ancient Chinese game of Pai Gow, which is played using a set of dominoes.

Pai Gow Poker is played with a 52-card deck, including one joker which is wild and can only be used as an Ace or to complete a Straight, Straight Flush or Royal Flush. Ranks and hand values are the same as in regular Poker. The object of the game is to create two Poker hands out of the seven cards in your hand; a five-card Poker hand and a two-card Poker hand. The five-card hand must rank higher than the two-card hand.

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