The Dealer or Banker will shake the Pai Gow shaker at least three times.

Three dice, contained inside the Pai Gow shaker, will be used to determine the starting position for dealing the tiles. To begin the game, the Players will place their wagers before the Dealer announces, “No more bets.” The Dealer will shuffle or “wash” the tiles and stack them into eight stacks of four tiles each. They lose their highest pair rank and become low-ranking tiles (fifteenth and seventeenth on the The 3 can be counted as 6 and the 6 can be counted as 3. When the two tiles that form the highest-ranking hand (the Supreme Pair) are used separately, the numeric value is interchangeable. **When two hands have the same numeric value of zero, they are considered equally bad, regardless of the high tile and the Bank will win all zero tiles. When two hands have the same numeric value and identical high tiles, it is called a “Copy Hand.” The Bank wins all Copy Hands. To determine which hand is higher, find the highest-ranked tile in each hand and compare them. *When two hands have the same numeric value, the ranking will determine the winner. If the numeric total of the spots is a two-digit number, the left digit is discarded and the right digit is the value of the hand. Add the total number of spots contained on the two tiles. To find the ranking of each tile and each permissible pair, refer to the ranking charts. The total will never be higher than 9 because only the last digit in the total number of spots is used. To find the numeric value, add the spots on each tile. Each tile has a numeric value and a symbolic ranking. Hands that do not contain pairs have numeric values. The next highest-ranking hands are numeric value hands, the highest of which is 9. Gongs are formed with the highest-ranking single tile, 12, and any 8 (Teen Gong) or the second-highest tile, 2, and any 8 (Day Gong). Please refer to the Single Tile Ranking Chart. Wongs are formed with the highest-ranking single tile, 12, and either 9 (Teen Wong) or the second-highest tile, 2, and either 9. Hands consisting of Wongs or Gongs are ranked lower than Pairs. The next highest-ranking hands are special combinations known as Wongs and Gongs. The highest ranking hand is the Supreme Pair, followed by Matched Pairs, and Unmatched or Mixed Pairs. A hand with any permissible pair is ranked higher than a hand that does not contain a pair. Pai Gow is played with a set of 32 Chinese tiles, which form 16 permissible pairs. No Player will be required to accept the Bank and the Dealer will act as Banker when all Players decline. The Banking Player must have enough chips to cover all wagers placed in that round and must have wagered in the previous round that the Dealer acted as Banker. The Banking option will be offered to each Player, in turn, rotating in a counterclockwise direction. Any Player who wishes to Bank must accept responsibility for all wagers made during that round of play. The Banker can be any Player or the Dealer. The object of the game is to beat the Banker. Pai Gow is an ancient Chinese betting game played with Chinese dominoes also called tiles.

Chinese domino game