Strategies That Will Help You to Win in Pai Gow Poker
Even though Pai Gow is quite an untypical type of Poker, some strategies of this popular game can be applied to it as well.
Here are some situations that will help you to understand the game better.
Let’s say you have No pair. This puts the highest card in your hand in the back (in case of 5-card hand). Next two highest cards go to the front. In such situation you should select second and third highest cards in case of two card hand; five-card hand is selected, choose your highest card.
The next situation - you get a pair. Put your pair in back and instead of this select two highest cards and they will come to the front. After this select these 2 cards and use them in two-card hand; similar to the previous situation your pair will be played for 5-card hand.
Next is Two Pairs. Put them all back and analyze the pairs. When your first pair consists of sevens or higher, but there’s no Ace, split this pair. The same belongs to pairs that have sixes or better, Jacks
or better (still without Ace). A Pair of Aces just like any other Pair should be split. You may wonder how you should play in this situation. It’s easy - when you have a single Ace, you can use it in two-card combination. Pairs can be played in five-card combination. In case this is not possible, use lower Pair in two-card hand and leave second pair for the five-card one.
Three Pairs require putting the highest pair in front. The highest pair is then used in two-card hand and second and third highest pairs are used in five-card hand.