This is a popular Chinese gambling game played with one set of dominoes; do not confuse it with Pai Gow poker. Pai Gow Poker is a game created in California to get around gambling laws played with a deck of regular cards and very elaborate rules.
Pai Gow means “make nine” and it is the original version of Baccarat or Chemin de Fer.
The Woodpile
The woodpile is four tiles high and eight tiles long. The first hand is determined by throwing three dice. Each player is dealt a stack of four tiles from the woodpile. The house starts the game as the bank, but then can pass the bank to other players, as in Baccarat.
Goal of the Game
The goal of the game is to divide the four tiles into two pairs or hands. If both your pairs outrank those play bazaar held by the bank then you win your bet. If both the bank’s pairs outrank yours then you lose your bet. If one of your pairs outranks those held by the bank and the other does not then the hand is a draw and you get your money back.
Ranking Your Hand
Ranking your hand is a bit complicated, so let’s start with the easy stuff first. There are 992 possible hands if you just do the straight math, but because of the duplicate tiles and the fact that order does not matter, there are actually fewer possible hands. Numeric order has little to do with the ranking of hands; it is symbolism and not substance. The hands are scored on Ingatbola88 as follows:
Gee Joon
The highest possible pair is the Gee Joon (“supreme pair”), which is made up of the two tiles:
4-2 and 2-1
The 4-2 and 2-1 are the two “wild cards” in the woodpile, and can be used as either a 3 or a 6 when making pairs (i.e. they substitute for each other). This is not the same rule that Western card games use, where a wild card substitutes for any card.
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