 |  Pai Gow Strategy
The thing you always have to remember is you need to win both hands. A full house would look very good in a five-card hand but unless you have another pair besides the full house in your hand, it would always be wise to split up the full house into a pair and a three of a kind. A pair in a two-card hand is almost unbeatable, unless of course your card values are lower than the dealers. And, of course, a three of a kind is also very good in a five-card hand. In this case you can be almost sure you are going to be a winner. If you kept the full house in just one hand, the other hand would have lost and it would have been a push.
Another thing to think of is in case you have to choose between either making two average to weak hands or one strong hand and one sure loser. Usually it is better to play it safe and go for one strong hand and hope for a push instead of risking to lose your bet with two average hands.
In pai-gow poker, the only strategic decisions are how much to bet and how to set your hand. The simple pai gow basic strategy for setting your hand is to make the highest 2-card hand that is less than your five card hand. If you can't figure out what to do, you can show your hand to the dealer and they will tell you how the house would set it. Since pairs generally win the 2-card hands, and two-pair wins the 5-card hands, the only difficult decisions are when to split two pairs.
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