It's called 'Pai Gow Poker Progressive' and it's a variation of traditional Pai Gow Poker that offers a progressive jackpot.

Yes, I'm familiar with the game you're describing. 4-3-1 If the rank of the 4oak is higher than the rank of the 3oak, does dealer ever split up the quads to play the highest possible top hand, and settle for playing a Boat on the bottom? I.e., if dealer has AAAA-222-8 is it: 4-1-1-1-1 Is Quads always broken up into two pair? Even with Quad 2s? What if you have the choice of making a straight or flush by breaking up the quads and playing a pair on top?ģ. Does this always go Trips to the bottom and Pair to the top? If there is an A-x that can be played on top, does the dealer play full house on the bottom?Ģ. May I ask a few more questions about the Super Pai Gow House Way?ġ. That's why the hand you saw, it kept the Ax with the straight but split the 5522Īnd basically, the design decision was to err or the side of simplicity in the house way, then adjust the paytables as needed to get a house edge. * If the dealer can play a straight or better with Ax or better, play the best top that still gives a straight or better. It's based on the 'rank pattern' of the eight cards (eight singletons, six singletons and one pair, and so forth).įor those curious, when the pattern is 2-2-1-1-1-1 (two pairs and four singletons), the following rule is used: I still have the source code and the house way is meant to be simplified as much as possible. Hey, great to see people still playing my little demos :) I did the math analysis on this game a long time ago. Also, the correct way to arrange the player's hand may occasionally depend on whether the player has raised 1x or 4x. Also, player strategy as to how arrange 7 card hands may be significantly different than conventional PGP, especially for 7 card hands that have two pair or higher. How bad do 4 card holdings have to be to fold them?Ĥ. What 4 card holdings would be good enough to justify a 4X raise? (Having the Joker would be a nice start.) Essentially player can fold, Raise 1x or Raise 4x Then the player's strategy for decisions after receiving four cards is critical. The House way for arranging the dealer's hands may be different because of the rule that a push means that the player wins the Ante Bet.ģ.

With dealer having 8 cards, dealer will get many more 5 card straights and flushes which can be played behind, with 3 cards from which to make the two-card hand.Ģ. Even calculating what dealer's probabilities are for an 8 card hand from a fresh deck is challenging. Wow, very interesting game and extremely hard to analyze.ġ.

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