Wednesday, 8 February 2012
According to Pai Gow expert, Stanford Wong, the being the dealer/banker as often as possible has the most impact on a winning strategy. This is great for those playing on-land, but for online players it doesn’t help much at all. There are, however, a few handy tips on hand selection that will help online players to make there money last.
The optimum hand selections based on cards dealt are listed below. For the sake of simplicity, we have called any pair of 2’s through 6’s a “low pair,” 7’s through J’s a “medium pair,” and Q’s through A’s a “high pair.”
| Your hand | 5-card hand selection | 2-card hand |
| No Pair: | the highest card | next two highest cards |
| One pair: | the pair | next two highest cards |
| Two Pair: | ||
| Pair of A's and any other Pair: | high pair | other pair |
| Two High Pair: | best pair | other pair |
| High Pair and Medium Pair | high pair | medium pair |
| High Pair and Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| High Pair & Low pair w/out A or K | highest pair | low pair |
| Two Medium Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Two Medium Pair without A or K | best pair | other pair |
| Medium Pair & Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Medium Pair & Low Pair w/out A or K | medium pair | low pair |
| Two Low Pair with A or K | both pair | A or K |
| Two Low Pair without A or K | best pair | other pair |
| Three Pair: | second and third highest pair | highest pair |
| Three of a kind: | ||
| Three A's | pair of A's | A and next highest card |
| All others | three of a kind | two highest remaining cards |
| Three of a twice: | lower three of a kind | highest pair |
| Full House: | ||
| With two pairs | full house with low pair | highest pair |
| Pair is 2's with A or K | full house | A or K |
| All others | three of a kind | the pair |
| Straight, flush & Royal Flush: | ||
| With no pair | lowest full hand | two highest cards |
| With one or two Pair | lowest full hand | 2 highest cards, pair or o/wise |
| With Three of a Kind | full hand | pair |
| With Full House | three of a kind | pair |
| With Three of a Kind twice | lower three | highest two |
| Four of a kind: | ||
| With Three of a Kind | four of a kind | pair from the three of a kind |
| With a Pair | four of a kind | pair |
| Four A's | pair of A's | pair of A's |
| J's through K's with an A | four of a kind | the A |
| J's through K's without an A | one pair from the four | the other pair |
| 7's through 10's with A or K | four of a kind | A or K |
| 7's through 10's without A or K | one pair from the four | the other pair |
| 2's through 6's | four of a kind | highest remaining two |
