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When playing Pai Gow poker you have to fulfill a requirement of your five card hand being stronger than your two card hand, and that's it; the rest is more or less up to you. If you are not sure how to arrange your cards, or you just want to play the same the way the house does, you can ask the dealer to arrange your hands for you the way he will for the house cards. This kind of strategy should improve your odds.

Another tip you can use in Pai Gow poker is to make use of the banking option, but you should bring enough money to do this in case you have to pay the rest of the players; this is the only disadvantage of banking, you have to have a strong bankroll. When you take this option, you play as the house against the other players at the table. You are treated with the same rules that the House Dealer is, so you win in case of duplicate hands. This leads to winning more hands overall at the end, if you manage to play solid hands. Winning in case of identical hands will improve the odds around 2% in your favor, and you’ll have the opportunity of cashing all the losing bets of the players at the table. If you try to pick a table with a low number of players you will have the option to be the dealer more often than at tables full of players. Also, ask if the casino allows sharing the bank, to reduce the risk of a potential blow to your bankroll in the circumstance that a round catches you losing against several players at the same time.

Never play a full house. It is better to split the full house into 2 hands. If you place the full house in the upper hand, the second hand would be a high card and more often than not this arrangement of cards will lead you to a push. It’s a better idea to put a pair (if is a high pair) on the front hand and the 3 of a kind in the behind hand because with this card order the odds to win both hands are increased by a lot.

If you happen to be the lucky and to get 3 pairs in your cards dealt, it is better to put the highest pair in the low hand, because any 2 other pairs in the up hand (even low pairs) give you an edge in winning the hand, and since the pair in the low hand is high the odds are equally good in your favor. In case of a 6 card flush, put the lowest high card in the front and the highest card in the low hand.