Poker Strategy

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Now let us discover some different styles of poker other than hold’em, 5 card stud, 5 card draw and omaha eight-or-better. Yes, pai gow poker. Now you must be wondering that pai gow sounds a bit Chinese; yes you are correct, this card game is a mixture of the Chinese game pai gow and poker
Clearly this is not one of the most popular types of poker but still broadly played. It can be played by up to 7 players. It’s played with 1 deck of 52 cards, plus a joker. Interestingly, the Joker can only be used as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush, a straight flush, or a royal flush. The important element here to always remember is apart from the usual ranking of hands we have an additional winning hand which is "Five Aces" (five aces including the joker). Surprisingly, 5 aces defeats all other hand including royal flush. Each player is dealt 7 cards. These cards are arranged to create two hands; a two card hand and a five card hand. The five card hand must be better or be equal to the two card hand.
After setting up the 2 hands, the cards are positioned on the poker table face down. Once on the table, you can no longer touch them. The croupier will flip over his cards and assemble his hands. Each competitors hand is compared to the croupier’s hands. If the player take one hand and loses the other, this is known as "push" and no cash is exchanged. If dealer wins both hands then the player looses their wager the opposite is correct if the player wins both hands. Now if there is a tie, the dealer wins all. Once the hand is played, the next person clock-wise gets to be the croupier and the next hand is dealt.