If you’re looking for a change of pace, take a look at CardRoom.com’s Pai Gow Poker room. One of the most popular Asian card games played today, Pai Gow Poker is a fixture in casinos and cardrooms around the world. Of course, CardRoom.com offers Pai Gow with it’s own inimitable style, allowing players to take turns acting as the House against other players, banking the action and enjoying the House’s advantage on all tie hands.

Other than the option for player banking, Pai Gow, like every game at CardRoom.com, runs the same way as at a traditional cardroom.

The advantage to being the banker is that the banker wins any tie hands and thus has a slight edge. Each player will have the opportunity to be the banker per revolution of the table and has the right to bank twice per their turn. Unlike poker it is played with a 53 card deck that includes 1 (one) Joker, which can be used as either an Ace or to complete a straight or flush.