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Pai Gow House Way

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Nov 19, 2020 House Way Strategy — Player Banker The Pai Gow Poker House Edge varies depending on both the player strategy and also the House Way rules applied by the casino. The House Way rules do not vary that much which allows for the application of an optimal gambler strategy. This strategy usually allows for a House Edge of between 2.5-2.6%.

For eons, Pai Gow poker house ways have varied from casino to casino, causing confusion, gripes, and even altercations among players and dealers, and among dealers and other casino personnel. The amount of lost time, money, and good will is considerable, and some think that it would just be better if one standard, reliable, and accurate Pai Gow Poker house way finally became adopted as an industry standard, or at least within one operator. Pretty much static, stable, and reliable for the game, like a full house always beating a flush in Hold 'em poker, or the Baccarat drawing method never changing on the players or dealers.

The house edge in this even-money game is 1.81%, better than the higher 2.72% house edge in Pai Gow Poker, assuming the player follows the house way and never banks. In the hundreds of casino games I’ve analyzed, I believe this game to be the least volatile, with a probability of a push of almost 50%. The standard deviation is a very low 0.72.
Generally, the house edge in pai gow poker is 2.7%, although it’s much lower when playing as the banker. This estimate assumes you’re just following the house way strategy. If you can play more optimally than that, you can whittle the house edge down by another 0.2%.
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Last night I played Pai Gow Poker at the Cannery, and got a doozy of a hand an hour into play, - the infamous full house with a straight/flush, upon which bad advice was heaped profusely by all. The hand was this: As (*joker) Qs Qh Qd 7s 2s.
The best play is to play the Ace-high flush with a pair of Queens on top, but everyone said 'You gotta play the full house with a pair of aces up.' No, I don't. The pair of queens up is about as strong as a pair of aces up, but the Ace-high flush is way stronger than trips. Funny thing, the dealer had a 6-high straight with no top, and the correct setting was the only way I could have won. ($50 bet, and $5 each bonus and insurance). A rare situation, but you see it if you play often. The Ace-high flush with Queens on top is 90% EV, and the full house is 82%, a big difference. NO ONE could figure out that the flush with queens was the stronger combo, it was like a mystery to them.
And so the development of Pai Gow poker house ways is a mystery among industry personnel; there's a running joke that house ways either come from some guy in a raincoat in the parking lot of Palace station, or from a shift manager's dart board. And there's a ton of truth to this. Ask anyone in the industry where their house way came from or how it was developed, and they wouldn't have a clue or an honest answer. No one in the industry analyzes house ways, they just fax them from one house to another, saying, 'Here...try this one.' Seriously. And it's ridiculous, and it has got to stop.
When I developed EZ Pai Gow, I also developed a house way that was actually designed to be mathematically accurate and efficient, to be included with the product as a best practices recommendation, as well as readable and sensible to dealers and players. But most houses simply said 'nah, screw that, I don't want to retrain the dealers if it isn't necessary, even if we lose a little house edge here and there with what we got. Besides, any new house way has to come down to us from the corporate table games guy, high above us, like manna from heaven when it appears - not that they know what's going on either.'
This is what I heard, both as a dealer and as a game designer afterwards. In any case, I did sit down with an accurate Pai Gow poker EV table of the two-card sides and five-card sides and some data, and discussed some points on Pai Gow Poker house way development with my mathematician, and kept all the notes that lead to two house ways (an 'Easy, Plain English' one that's very deal-able, and a more detailed one for online and computer apps).
I did focus on the house way being strong and accurate for the house, but then, the players will also follow it, as the way the play is the house way they're exposed to. I also learned some interesting things about optimizing it, and the areas of efficiency in operating Pai Gow poker games:
1. In the casino, what is not known to them, but should be practiced, is selecting less aggressive and less volatile house ways that have the same EV strength, as it is better to push more hands and collect on a few wins, than to have wins and loses that just cancel each other out; as such it is just useless chip mucking. This is particularly true for commission-free Pai Gow poker games like EZ Pai Gow, because no commission is made on churning wins against loses. Simply put, it is better for the dealer to push four hands and win two, than to win four hands and lose two hands back - for the SAME net two wins. In one case, the dealer goes to the rack six times for two wins, and the other case, the dealer goes to the rack two times for the two wins.
2. The other area is that the dealer wins hand copies, and for this reason the house ways should explicitly mention and favor AK/AQ tops instead of splitting close hands based on whether the top is any ace or not. The deliberate use of fostering two-card side copies is a house technique in designing Pai Gow poker house ways, and yeah, it is used in some house ways.
3. In return, what is discarded here is the dealer 'protecting' his high-card Pai Gow hands, by playing the 2nd & 4th cards up as disallowed or verboten; this move is particularly blatant and off-putting, and makes the casino house seems overtly stingy and greedy on the game, while the more accurate settings on high hands of two pairs and better are deemed fair and discreet for dealer and player alike to use.
4. More accurate game logic. If you truly examined and analyzed such things as four of a kind handling, you'd see some REALLY bad math represented in the hand cut-over break points. You should keep four jacks or 10's together with ANY ace-low, and four 7's to 9's with any King top, etc. Also noticeable is the lack of accurate handling in straights and flushes, aside to say 'play the best two-card side' (generally correct), and 'if you have two pairs, then always play as a two-pair hand' (quite often incorrect, but just sloughed off here and inserted into the house way). The addition of two simple clauses to the two-pair handling makes the two-pair logic immensely stronger: keeping all two pair hands with AK, and keeping low two pair with a King top.
Anyway, below is the best two house ways I have developed at this point, (the second one coming later to avoid overload), and it has gone a LONG way above the typical casino house way in both accuracy and in addressing the elimination of 'churned wins-against-loses,' etc.:
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Pai Gow: Highest card in five card hand, 2nd and 3rd strongest on two card side.
One pair: Always play pair in five card side, with next two strongest cards up
Two pairs:
a. Always split Ace-high two pairs.
b. Always split jacks and 7’s or better, except when having an AK for the top.
c. Always keep two-pairs 6’s and less with any King or better top, else split.
d. Split all other two pairs without an ace, but keep together with an ace.
Three pairs: always play the highest pair in the two-card side
Three of a kind, simple (no flush or straight with it):

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a. Three Aces always split 2-and-1, as a pair of aces for the five-card side.
b. All other three of a kinds (Kings and less) never break up.
Two three of a kinds

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: split off a pair from the higher group for the top.
Straights and/or flushes

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a. Straight or flush with one pair: If the pair is Jacks or better, and the top is Ace-face or better, play as one pair if the straight or flush has a queen or less top. (In other words, play the damn straight or flush with the King up, - if you only have a one pair hand with it.)
b. Straight or flush with two pairs: Always play the straight or flush if it has an AQ or better top, else use two-pair rule
c. Straight with Flush: play the one with the highest two-card side.
d. Straight or flush with three of a kind: always play it as a straight or flush with pair or ace up. (Play 9888765 as 98765/88, and AA*2459=A2*45/A9)
e. Straight or flush with full house: Play as flush or straight if it has 8’s or better for the top or the pair is better than the full house pair, else treat as full house, below.
Straight flush or Royal Flush: Always handle as straight and/or flush, above.
Full house:
a. If you have a full house with an extra pair, then play the higher pair up;
b. If your full house’s pair is 5’s or less, keep with AK, else split.

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Four of a kind with a pair:
a. Split four Aces or Kings 2 & 2 with a pair of 3’s or 2’s, to play Aces or Kings on top, else keep all other four of a kind hands together with any pair for the top.
Four of a Kind with no pair:
a. Always split four Aces 2 & 2.
b. Keep ALL four of a kinds together with an AJ, AQ or AK top, including 4 Kings.
c. Always split four Kings or Queens with an A-10 or less.
d. Keep four Jacks or 10’s with any Ace top, else split 2 & 2.
e. Keep 7’s through 9’s together with any King or better top, else split 2 & 2.
f. Keep 6’s and lower with a Queen or better top, else split 2 & 2.
For four of a kind with a three of a kind, split a pair from the higher group for top.
Five aces: Always play a pair of aces up.

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Deucekies

Suggestion:
Five aces: Keep five aces down when you can play KK up.

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Paigowdan

Suggestion:
Five aces: Keep five aces down when you can play KK up.

Yes, true, but I purposely omitted it as a personal gripe of mine, because it is just SOOOO rare, and would return so little in terms of real-world difference, I wished to exclude that hand. In house way design, unless you can pick up 0.1% or better when the house way is only off 0.4% or so, then less is really more. This change would pick up 0.00001% or so.
I have an image in my mind's eye of a dealer looking at the house way and palm-slapping her forehead.
I have other improvements in a slightly more detailed house way (still one page) that I'll add;
I also have a player non-banking strategy that addresses house copies against you. Not all that much can be done against a good house way, but some tricks work.

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Deucekies

True story about less being more.
A thought I had. I think it's true at most casinos that when a player needs help setting a hand, dealers are only allowed to quote houseway. To that end, it seems to me you don't want a houseway that's TOO optimal because that's how most players are going to be playing.
(I feel like a bad person when I have to tell a player with 6655732 that 'Houseway is 7-3, sir.' Yes, that's actually our houseway. Never split two pair 6s or lower.)

Paigowdan

Good point! This is why I had to take out the Pai Gow high-card maneuver of protecting the dealer's Pai Gow hand, it was just SOOOO greedy and cheap-ass and bad-will in nature for the extra tenth of a percent, it HAD to go. I mean, the player would be playing at the table, and get stuck with an Ace-high Pai Gow, - and the dealer would try to openly beat him by manipulating his OWN Pai Gow to sleaze-out a win. For a dealer to protect his Pai Gow hand is just too shameless.

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(I feel like a bad person when I have to tell a player with 6655732 that 'Houseway is 7-3, sir.' Yes, that's actually our houseway. Never split two pair 6s or lower.)

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And you're right - the split 6's and 5's will beat a number of dealer hands while the topless two pairs will only push or lose. I once coached a player who had a flush with a straight (that had an AJ top), and playable also as Aces and jacks. He asked me how I'd play it, and I said AJ top with King-high straight, in case I get two low pairs, trips, a lower straight, or a full house with a higher pair. Sure enough, I got Ax/5522x and he won and tipped me well. Surveillance called down to the pit and said I was coaching players, and I went to the shift office for a warning.

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I'd like to share a top-down ranking. I well know the suits won't go for it, but the Players may see the value in this to simplifiy their own decisions. This has been gleaned from a lot of the work done by JB, the Wiz, and open discussions here with Dan.
The House Way: 'Front hand' or 'front' is the 2-card hand. 'Back' or 'in back'Ã¯Â¿Â½ is the 5-card hand.
....a.) Decisions are made top to bottom. If a decision fails, move to the next-lower decision.
....b.) If the decision matches, then the EXCEPTIONS and/or STEPS are tested.
....c.) A Royal-Straight-Flush is a Straight-Flush in these tests.
....d.) Ace-Face refers to Ace-Jack, Ace-Queen, and Ace-King only.
1.) Five Aces: A Pair of Aces plays to the front hand.
2.) Quad + Triple: Play the high Pair in front.
3.) Quad + Pair: The Pair plays in front
4.) [Straight-Flush, Flush, or Straight]: Play these STEPS as follows from top to bottom;
....a.) Play best [choice] with a pair in front
....b.) Play as Three Pairs (see 9. below)
....c.) Play a Straight-Flush with Ace-Face in front
....d.) Play as Two Pair (see 10. below)
....e.) Play best [choice] with Ace-other in front
....f .) Play as One Pair TT or better with Ace-Face in front
....g.) Play the best two non-choice cards in front
5.) Quads: TTTT = Four Tens, split = Pair + Pair. Play these STEPS as follows from top to bottom;
....a.) AAAA KKKK QQQQ : Always split.
....b.) J J J J TTTT 9999: Ace with best non-quad plays to front, else split.
....c.) 8888 7777 6666: King or Ace with best non-quad plays to front, else split.
....d.) 5555 4444 3333 2222: DO NOT SPLIT, play the best two non-quads in front.
6.) Full House + Pair: Higher of the two Pairs plays to front hand.
7.) Full House or Two Triples: Play as low Triple in back, the remaining Pair in front,
....EXCEPT Play Ace-Face in front of any Full House having the Pair ranked 22 or 33.
8.) One Triple: Best two non-triples play to front,
....EXCEPT AAA splits as Ace with best non-triple in front of AA with remainders.
9.) Three Pairs: Play the highest Pair to front.
10.) Two Pairs: Split = High pair in back, Low pair in front. Play these STEPS as follows from top to bottom;
....a.) High Pair QQ KK AA: Always split.
....b.) High Pair 99 TT J J: Play Ace to front, else split
....c.) High Pair 66 77 88: Play King or Ace in front, else split.
....d.) High Pair 55 or less: Play Queen or better in front, else split.
11.) One Pair: Play best two non-pair to front hand.
12.) High Card (Pai Gow): Play the 2nd and 3rd highest ranks in front, all other cards in back.
I think both perspectives have their value, and opportunities. The Cat & Mouse aspect of the game remains intact either way.
*** EDIT... PLAYER as BANKER EXCEPTIONS Below ***
EXCEPTIONS for PLAYER as BANKER listed by Rule Above
3.) If the Quad is 8 ranks or more higher than the Pair, then split the Quad.
5.) QUADS are rewritten
....a.) AAAA Always Split
....b.) KKKK QQQQ JJJJ: Play Ace-Other Face to front, else split
....c.) TTTT 9999: Play Ace to front, else split
....d.) 8888 7777: Play King or Ace to front, else split
....e.) 6666 5555: Play Queen or better to front, else split
....f .) 4444 3333 2222: DO NOT SPLIT, play best two remainders to front
8.) Add the following rule as 8b.):
....Split KKK as above in 8a.) UNLESS an Ace or Queen can play to front
10.) Use Poker Hand ranking for the two pairs and determine as follows;
....a.) QQ77 to AAKK: Always Split
....b.) JJ66 to QQ66: Play Ace-Face to front, else split
....c.) 8855 to JJ55: Play Ace-other to front, else split
....d.) 5544 to 8844: Play King or Ace to front, else split
....e.) 5533 or less: Play Queen or better to front, else split
12.) EXCEPTIONS to Ace-High Pai Gow: Protect a bad hand
....a.) If the the 3 highest ranks in the 7-card hand are AKQ, play the 2nd and 4th high ranks to front.
....b.) If the 2nd high rank in the 7-card hand is a 9 or 8, play the 3rd and 4th high rank to front.
....c.) Play the 2nd and 4th highest ranks to maintain an 8 or better in the 5-card hand.

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Incidentally, in what situations is playing the 2nd and 4th card up as a player mathematically better than playing the 2nd and 3rd card up? Have you quantified it? Are there ever times where playing 3rd and 4th would be better? A876432 as the lowest ace-high?

Paigowdan

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Yes, this has been quantified by many; in cases where the Pai Gow hand has a large gap between the 3rd and 4th highest card, it is better to play the hand as 2nd and 4th in the low hand, putting the 3rd highest card in the 5-card side to protect it in case the dealer also has a Pai Gow hand. The hand AKJ6432 is better plated as K6/AJ432 than KJ/A6432, because the A6432 five-card side would be clobbered when facing another Ace-high Pai Gow, whereas the AJ432 setting would most likely provide a saving push or surprise win IF facing another Pai Gow. If a casino house decides to fine-tune playing to protect Ace-high Pai Gow hands, players would revolt.

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Paigowdan

The top-down way is good for programming a PGP simulator, but is slow and cumbersome for human play. The suits just have to be 100% satisfied, in order to accept and adopt a house way, and in the order from weakest to strongest.

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JB
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There are many situations where you don't play the 2nd & 3rd highest cards in the low hand. Trying to describe this aspect of PGP strategy accurately would be very difficult, but here are some example hands (against the Foxwoods house way, when the dealer is banking):

Cards in Low Hand	Example Hand	Low Hand
2nd and 4th	A♠ K♦ 10♥ 9♦ 7♣ 3♣ 2♣	K♦ 9♦
2nd and 5th	A♦ K♠ 8♠ 6♥ 4♣ 3♦ 2♣	K♠ 4♣
2nd and 6th	A♦ Q♠ 9♥ 8♥ 6♦ 5♣ 2♣	Q♠ 5♣
2nd and 7th	A♦ J♦ 7♥ 6♦ 4♣ 3♣ 2♣	J♦ 2♣
3rd and 4th	A♦ 10♥ 8♣ 6♦ 4♣ 3♣ 2♣	8♣ 6♦
3rd and 5th	A♥ 9♥ 7♦ 6♣ 4♣ 3♣ 2♣	7♦ 4♣
3rd and 6th	A♥ 9♦ 8♥ 6♦ 5♥ 3♦ 2♣	8♥ 3♦
4th and 5th	A♦ 9♥ 8♦ 6♣ 4♣ 3♣ 2♣	6♣ 4♣
4th and 6th	A♥ 9♥ 8♣ 7♦ 5♣ 4♣ 2♣	7♦ 4♣

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A game that seats nine to ten players is called a full ring game. Though in the internet age, the six max is also popular. Six max means there are always six players or less at a table. There is usually more aggressive reraising and the blinds come around more frequently. If you want action, this is the place for you!
Tournament Poker

Poker tournaments are sometimes known as MTTs or multi-table tournaments. There is usually an entry fee. In many cases, there is re-entry available and there might also be a rebuy/addon feature. One feature of the poker tournament is that blinds increase as the game progresses. This in effect forces the player to bet rather than wait for “good hands”. This also narrows the playing field. But as the playing field narrows, the winnings go up. A great example of a poker tournament format is the WSOP tournaments. Most their games are in tournament structure. The winner gets the most money. But for those who finish at a certain level, they also are “in the money”. There are several types of poker tournaments.
Sit N’Go Tournaments

These tournaments are on demand type tournaments that start when a minimum amount of players join. These types of tournaments are usually running 24/7 at popular poker sites due to many players who sign up. Payouts for sit n’go tournaments vary with amount of players.
Satellite Tournaments

Many land based and online sites offer satellite tournament where a winner or group of winners win a seat to a larger tournament. They offer a discount way to get into costly tournaments. For example, satellite entry fee might $10, while the tournament might cost $200.
Advantages Cash Games and Tournament Poker
As said, both games have their advantages. There are people who solely make a living from playing cash games. One thing they cite is the ability to come and go as they please. This works especially for those with obligations. Picking up kids, walking dogs, cooking food all take time away from the focus needed to play at the peak of focus. Playing a cash game can allow the player to focus for brief period of time without worrying about outside factors. Tournament play on the other hand is where the big money is. Those who specialize in tournament play usually have fewer outside obligations to worry about. And have the time to play a long multiple hour tournament. Tournament length will vary due to the amount of players in the tournament, the more players the more time it will take to finish. Generally, the more money on the table, the more players who will be in the tournament. Though high roller tournaments is the exception but the buy-in is usually so high only a few people can join anyway.

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Cash Games Vs Tournaments Draftkings

There are two different game formats in DFS, cash games and tournaments. They are both very different and require a different strategy when drafting your team. In this article we will go through both and help you understand the main differences between the two.

Cash Games

Cash games only pay out the top 50% of the field. They can consist of as little as 2 entries (known as head-to-head), to as big as tens of thousands of entries. Everybody who finishes in the top 50% gets paid the same amount, double their buy-in. Because of this, we don’t care about finishing first, we just want to make sure we get into the top half of the field.

Difference Between Cash Games And Tournaments 2019

To do this, we need to make sure we pick a draft team with the highest floor possible. A floor is the lowest possible score we can expect from a player.

In NBA, Steph Curry has a remarkable high floor, as he generally never scores below 40 FPS. By creating a team with a high floor, this should mean that we are guaranteed enough points to get into the top 50%, even if we are no where near the top of the leaderboard. There is no need to take risks in cash games, so steer clear of players who are unpredictable.

Tournaments

Cash Vs Tournament Dfs

Tournament strategy is quite the opposite to that of cash games. Tournaments are usually very top heavy in the pay scale, meaning to get a good amount of winnings you need to finish in the top 1-5% of the field. To do this, you generally have to take some risks. Unlike in cash games where we are looking for players with high floors, in tournaments we need players with high ceilings.

A high ceiling is the highest possible score we can expect from a player. Of course, as we want to score as highly as possible, we need to create a team with the highest ceiling as possible. Again, a player like Steph Curry has a high ceiling too, as he can score upwards of 70 FPS a night.

Generally players with high ceilings are the highest priced players, but not always. Some players, known as “boom or bust”, can have high ceilings but very low floors, meaning you don’t know what to expect from them. They are needed in your teams, but of course make the amount of points you will score very unpredictable.

As well as finding players with high ceilings, another strategy is to make contrarian plays, or “plays against the grain”. This means going for players who most other DFS players may dismiss, for a number of reasons. By doing this, you are differentiating your team from many of the field, which means if that player has a great game, you will find yourself shooting up the leaderboard.

Hopefully this article will help you to identify the differences between cash games and tournaments and the need to change your lineups depending on which type you are playing.