This can’t be done without an understanding of traditional poker hand rankings. The players do the same, arranging their cards into a five-card hand, called a high hand, and a two-card, or low hand.
The banker reveals his cards and sets them into two separate poker hands. Instead, each plays heads-up against the banker. Unlike in traditional no-limit Texas Hold’em, players don’t compete against each other in Pai Gow Poker. To play Pai Gow Poker at one of the many casinos on the Strip, players place their ante bets and the banker deals seven cards to himself and to every seat at the table, including the empty ones. Players arrange their cards into two hands in a unique poker variant.
