Foul Hands in Pai Gow
Written May 14, 2008 by Jack Jones
Sometimes you can have better cards while playing Pai Gow and still end up losing. I’m talking about foul hands, and even if you beat the bankers hands you will be denied payment and lose your wager.
In order to win at Pai Gow you have to be able to beat both of the banker’s hands with both of yours. As most of you know you have to set seven cards into two separate hands of two and five cards. A hand is considered foul when hands either have the wrong number of cards in them, or the two card low hand has a higher value than the five card high hand.
Let’s take a look at an example. The banker could have a pair of 4’s for his two-card hand and a pair of 8’s for his five-card hand. You could have a winning hand like a pair of queens and kings, but put the kings in the two-card hand instead of the five-card hand.
Even though both of your pairs would have beaten both of the dealer’s, you fouled the hand by putting the stronger pair up front. If the two-card hand is higher in value than the five-card, then your hand is foul an it’s a loser.
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