Pai Gow Tutorial
Chapter 2: Basic Game Mechanics
What's special about this deal?
See the last page of this chapter for the answer.
Before you learn the strategy of playing Pai Gow, you need to know the basics of how the game is played. For example, you need to know what you do with your tiles, how you know who wins the bet, what happens when there is a tie, etc. This chapter will answer those questions for you.
Pai Gow can be played by 2 to 8 participants. You may think of it like a blackjack game, with one or more players facing a dealer. In fact, in casinos it is played at a table exactly like a blackjack table.
Pai Gow is usually played as a betting game, so your first task is to decide how much you want to bet for the upcoming deal. As in blackjack, you cannot change your bet once the tiles are dealt to you.
The dealer starts by shuffling the tiles, mixing them up face down on the tabletop. He stacks the tiles so that neither he nor the players can see the spots. The dealer then gives four tiles to himself, four tiles to you, and if there are other players at the table, they each receive four tiles as well.
You then decide how to play your tiles (you'll learn what that means on the next page). After everyone at the table decides how to play his tiles, you discover if you won or lost this deal, and money might exchange hands, depending on the outcome. As at a blackjack table, some players might win, and some might lose their bets.
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Chapter 2: Basic Game Mechanics
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