Players are not allowed to discuss their hands at any stage. The player must arrange the cards so that the five card hand is higher than the two card hand (so if the two cards were a pair of aces, the five card hand would have to contain two pairs or better). For the two card hand, any pair beats any two unmatched cards, but no other combinations are possible. Five aces is the highest hand, beating a straight flush.

The relative values of the five card hands are the same as in poker, with one exception: A-2-3-4-5 is the second highest type of straight or straight flush, ranking between A-K-Q-J-10 and K-Q-J-10-9. All players other than the dealer look at their cards and divide them to form two hands - a two card hand and a five card hand. Before the deal, each of the other players puts up a stake. On each deal the dealer plays against the other players. The joker is a wild card which can be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, a flush or a straight flush. It can be played by up to seven players.Ī pack of 52 cards plus one joker is used. This is a casino gambling game based on the Chinese Domino game Pai Gow but played with playing-cards and poker combinations instead of with dominoes.

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