Playing Face Up Pai Gow Progressive Poker in Las Vegas

[@repetitioniskey]

This is the only game I play at the casino bc the house edge isn’t ridiculously one-sided and it doesn’t require any complex betting strategy. You’re just playing your best cards each hand, that’s it. No having to memorize a stats textbook, no having to know when the decks “hot”, no having to depend on other players to work against the dealer or screwing you bc they’re incompetent, or any other complicated bs that the other table games require to get a competitive advantage. It’s just straight up fun gambling with easy side bets that pay decently when they hit. You can play for three hours and walk away with a little bit more money than you sat down with and that’s fine with me. It’s just a fun game.

[@BeyondBlackjack]

I agree. Love it.

[@Landstalker1999]

And it's a slow game so if you want to relax and just have fun, this game is it.

[@kennydo369]

Hi Kelly, great playing, I wanted to thank you personally for helping me out while Ed was proxy for me at Oxford Downs playing DD wild card on my last hands. It was very gracious of you.

[@javanfernandez2217]

More pai gow videos! 😊

[@felixchien1664]

What's the catch for face up PaiGow vs normal PaiGow? Looks like since you see the dealer's card first, you can adjust your hand to assure a push at worse. For example, splitting a low two pair into the low and high to get a push instead of a loss.

[@BeyondBlackjack]

Yes. That’s exactly the advantage of Face Up Pai Gow. The “catch” is that a dealer Ace high Pai Gow is a push but that is not much of a house edge in my opinion.

[@Kriswixx]

I like paigow for suren! It's fun. Aaaaand this dealer is super sweet with a "bless your heart" hidden in her front Pocket. Ya know, in case someone wants to try the patience. She's great.

[@dennisnichols7123]

No matter how hard I concentrate, how hard I try to pay attention, I just cant wrap my head around this game. Which is sad cause I work on complicated electronics for a living lol

[@BeyondBlackjack]

If you sit at a table and play a few hands, you’ll get it right away. I was the same way and so intimidated by it. I finally sat at a table with just me and the dealer and it came to me pretty quickly.

[@felixchien1664]

It's simple if you know how to play poker. You get 7 cards where you make a 2 card and a 5 card poker hand. The only condition is that your 5 card must be a better hand than your 2 card. The casino house has their own rules on how to split their 7 cards into a 5 and 2 card hand. If both your 5 card hand beats the dealer's 5 card hand AND your 2 card hand beats the dealer's 2 card hand, you win. If the dealer's 2 hands beat both of your hands, you lose. If your 5 card hand beats the dealer's 5 cards but the dealer beats your 2 card hand, then it's a push. If your 2 card hand beats the dealer's 2 card hand, but the dealer beats your 5 card hand, it's a push

[@susanw.7510]

Tammy was great! Fun to see Pia Gow again, I like this game.

[@chillywilly2913]

Everyone we play face up Pai gow on strip the dealer gets monster hands. The shuffler changes the game

[@kennethlocke4213]

Want to ask you to review your vidio tally up the win/loss amount on all 3 side bets. It's just from watching pai gow it seriously looks like the main bet alone is way better. Side bets appear to be $$ bleeding rarely ever breaking even.

[@GABRiEI760]

Enjoyed watching! 🙌 this will help me from wanting to play 😅

[@steved.]

8:27 you had a full house 2s, and Kings.

[@steved.]

Oh, the Joker is an Ace..

[@AmalanotMomala]

great video, I can clearly see the dealer's hand as well as yours.

[@BeyondBlackjack]

Thanks 👍

[@jamesstevenson3116]

But you don’t win when dealer gets ace high so it’s not worth it

[@J_Money1]

Didn't you hit a 3 of a kind @ 8:30? should have paid 3 to 1, no?

[@ReelDeckGaming]

LOVE Tammy lol. She’s such an awesome dealer!

[@Nash55ppp]

It is regardless of getting errors on Pai gow, when a player have a joker and 4 same suits with 2 different suits for example joker, Ace of ♥, 5 of ♠, 6,7, 9, and King of ♣, the player wins with a straight instead of flush, flush always beats straight, players and dealers missed that hand, and cost a little money to not get a flush bonus. It is also a player reject to play an Ace high bonus, and the dealer had the Ace high, and then the player had an Ace high as well, and cost them to win an Ace high. Kelly, it's been a while since you play Pai gow.

[@greenbird3850]

GVR is actually in Henderson NV.

[@Jeff-nm9km]

She was getting really good hands the whole game.

[@jonfelie1899]

Good to see you again, Kelly. Wish you had hit the Royal flush. Chili Jon 😊

[@BeyondBlackjack]

Thank you :)

[@sheldenadkins9773]

Yup ace high paigow is 🤙

[@Tocomaco]

Always play a face card with an ace on the bottom, with a pai gow hand (only for a push), unless you have a King, then also, keep the next high card below the King, in with the bottom ace (10 or face card)...this is only to have a better chance to push if you got big money on the bet. I've been playing this game for over 25 years, (many years in the plus, without side bets, and played very conservative betting), the only game I play and love. (Casino Niagara CA. & Seneca Niagara NY), and funny they didn't add any forms of side bets & jackpots until less than rive years ago. I'm not so keen on the side bets...the more and more I look at the videos, chances overall it seems with 'loses & wins' results, it's more like the same wins & loses in Blackjack...just my thought. And if anyone can answer a question, at those Casinos out in Vegas, without fouling a hand, are you forced to 'only' play it house ways?....here in Buffalo/Canada, you don't have to, even if you take the 'Bank'. Also to let you know if you plan to come out here, the Casinos here are very, very, very strict when it comes to any recording & phone use, and as well for any chit-chat while making the hands with any players, AND, if any other person touches another player's cards, YOU will be asked to leave!!!...Pai Gow hasn't been ready that popular here, so we don't have 'face up' play (yet), but if there's only a single player it's ok. And it's very weird in the Vegas 'face up' play, that the dealer shows the house cards first...WOW, very strange, then it gives any of the players to set it any way they want!...so if a full table plays, do the math, if with the 6 players altogether are showing all the aces & a lot of face cards..chances are most all wins/90% possible pushes!

[@TraceNoOne]

Oh no way. Not the blue nails. Im In love 🥰 ❤ again.

[@Trojan2024]

Been a while since you filmed a session of face up pai gow. You didn't do too bad but you got killed playing the ace high which is normally not a good bet, Enjoyed the session since this is my go to game. Lets see more of it!

[@LuckyScratchersSlots]

Pai gow looks fun

[@handsomemansome]

Only some casinos in CA play the joker as completely wild. It does take a minute to readjust to normal rules when I go to Vegas.

[@steven8955]

Hi, I’m a view from Vegas gamblers channel and I was wondering if maybe you knew if their whereabouts? They haven’t posted on their channel in a couple of months now when they said they would be back in September. Just thought I’d ask because you were mentioned in one of their posts, thank you!

[@BeyondBlackjack]

They are doing fine. They are just focused on their business. It’s hard to balance KZbin and a busy company.

[@steven8955]

@@BeyondBlackjack thank you, I appreciate the reply!

[@mr3002u]

Finally pai gow

[@herbsaron5432]

Why didnt she do a full house instead of 3 pairs with the joker?

[@debbieshewbert9651]

The joker isn't wild. It completes a straight or a flush. If not it's just the 5th ace.

[@dustinyoung19]

second hand you mucked would have pushed. you beat the aq with 10s

[@vlwiicked]

At the 5min mark is that not a miss deal? She missed the first 2 spots then dealt you then the last 2 spots then dealt the first 2 spots.

[@nelliemacgilvray-fn6ey]

Didn't get paid for a full house. 8:35

[@rapl1183]

She doesn’t have a full house? In most casinos at least, the joker can only be used as an ace OR to complete a straight or flush. So in her case, it could not have been used to complete a full house. She technically had two Kings, one Ace + Joker (Ace), and two 2s

[@Nash55ppp]

Full house with a joker is for Aces with trips or pair only, combine with 2s-Ks trips or pair for example trips with Kings over joker(Ace), and Ace of ♦️.

[@avisser5345]

That dealer was too hot, too many pair pair.

[@yendub]

9:58 Dealer had a Pai Gow and you didn't get paid for it.

[@acoleman6621]

I think dealer had King High not ace high

[@yendub]

@@acoleman6621 Then that is an even worse sucker bet if it literally requires an Ace High Pai Gow, and not just any Pai Gow.

[@louievargas1003]

You said in one point of the video that the envy made it if you won on that bonus over 5x that anyone else on the table that had a $5 bonus bet would win that also. There was a hand where you won $25 on a bonus hand with a $5 bet. Shouldn’t your other hand with the $5 bonus bet have also won?

[@louievargas1003]

At the 17:30 mark

[@BeyondBlackjack]

Only certain hands qualify for envy

[@josephinerodrigues586]

Kelly, the hands keep moving. So it doesn't matter.

[@BeyondBlackjack]

I agree

[@milomapilisan2294]

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[@jackies2756]

Sorry, I don't understand this game 😢

[@BeyondBlackjack]

It’s very easy once you start to play. I suggest to people to just sit at a table early when it’s still pretty empty. The dealer will help you learn. After a couple hands, you will think it’s a piece of cake.

[@davidlam5122]

You should play this game because you don't know the order of cards.

[@starseed756]

Of all the table games I've seen this is like the worst with worst winning hands

[@Zamad42]

Stop showing people to bet the stupid side bets, that is where the house makes its money. On the hand you got the flush six minutes in, you got paid 4 to 1, but lost three other $5 bets (2 on the envy and one on the other fortune) so you got paid even money. Then the next hand, you ended up winning one hand and losing the other but ended up going down $20 thanks to the stupid side bets. You are better off in the long run taking that extra $10 and making a $35 regular Pai Gow bet.

[@brianatkinson8164]

If you are going to sit for hours you are right for the long term, but most people only play for a little bit. Your chances to hit something big and make it worth your time is only to play the side bets. Most people are playing too lose everything they put out or hit something big. Most aren't playing with 1000 just too leave up 100. They stay with 1000 and hope to bleed until they hit a couple 1000 side bet or more. It all depends what your goals and intents are. Playing straight up is high floor (smaller losses) and low ceiling (lower wins) so as you said more consistent chances to net profit, whereas playing side bets is low floor (bigger losses) and high ceiling (huge wins).