Bonus Pai Gow Poker: Microgaming Online Table Game

Bonus Pai Gow poker is an online casino game based on the Chinese game: Pai Gow.
Pai Gow is normally played with tiles but as the online casino variant name implies, Bonus Pai Gow Poker is played with cards.
Pai Gow poker has many similarities to regular poker, so if you are familiar with regular poker or video poker, you are well on your way to playing Pai Gow poker.

Rules of Poker as Applied to Pai Gow Poker

In Bonus Pai Gow Poker, the goal is to beat the dealer ( online casino ) when comparing your hand with that of the dealer.
The hand values or order is the same in Bonus Pai gow Poker and regular Poker ( for non bonus bets ).
Royal Flush, Four of a King, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two pairs, Single Pair and last High card.

Bonus Pai Gow Poker offer additional hand combinations because the game is played with Jokers, and because both the player and dealer recieve 7 cards.
The additional Bonus Pai Gow Poker hands are:
7 card straight flush
Royal Flush and a Pair of Deuces
7 Card Straight Flush with Joker
Five Aces

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In Pai Gow poker, you are dealt seven cards, but unlike the seven-card stud poker variant, you will be using all seven to make your hand.
You must make a two card front hand and a five card back hand.

Straights and flushes cannot be made on the front hand, so your best front hand would be a pair of aces.
There is however, a rule in Bonus Pai Gow Poker that your back hand must be stronger than your front hand.

In Bonus Pai Gow Poker, any straight with an ace in it is considered an ace high straight, so A, 2, 3, 4, 5 would beat 8, 9, 10, J, Q.

One of the first things you will notice when you start playing Bonus Pai Gow Poker is that there are two betting areas.
The game offers a bonus betting area in addition to the normal betting area, and this is where you can win the big prizes.

Bonus bets enable a whole new paytable based on the amount you wager in the bonus betting area.
The following payout table shows the Bonus Pai Gow Poker win options with a Bonus Bet of $1

7 card straight flush: $8,000
Royal Flush and a Pair of Deuces: $2,000
7 Card Straight Flush with Joker: $1,000
Five Aces: $400
Royal Flush: $150
Straight Flush: $50
Four of a Kind $25
Full House: $5
Flush: $4
Three of a Kind: $3
Straight: $2

Pai Gow is actually an old game with roots in China, but very few people knew about this game before it appearedg in California and Las Vegas in the late 80s.
The Pai Gow Poker variant that can be found at online casinos is played with a standard deck of cards with one wild card (joker), and the player is trying to beat the dealer with two poker hands out of 7 cards, one five-card hand and one two-card hand.

The Pai Gow Poker house advantage is 2.5% bringing it up between many other popular and respected casino games.
You can experience this Video Poker variant, and several others at Microgaming Online Casinos.

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