PAI GOW

How far back do you want to go? You go back far enough you’ll discover the Chinese ancestors of Pai Gow started playing with sticks.

Then they started notching the sticks, and placing value on the notches. All this was for fun.

Then some wise guy put some money down and started playing Pai Gow, not with sticks, but with little tiles, like dominoes.

He called himself the banker.

All this activity was going on, big time, throughout the Orient.

Meanwhile, back in Nevada, the Desert Iguana and the Spiny Lizard were quarreling over who held title to the land that now lies beneath The Bellagio.

Then travelers to the Orient, vagabonds like Marco Polo, saw these Chinese fellows playing with tiles and shoving coins with holes in their middle---figured this a game we got to get a handle on and bring it west ... and that, old friend, after hundreds of years, is how Pai Gow got to America.

And after years of study, we bring to the table our Official Guide to playing and understanding Pai Gow.

The booklet is complete, offering  the best way, the smart way to play the hand your dealt.

By the way there are two translations, we are told, on just what does Pai Gow means in English.

One is “to make nine....”  The second is “Spotted Brick.”

We always go with the second version, it fits the memory of  when the game was played with tiles.

PLAYING PAI GOW THE SMART WAY....      $13.00

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