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As far as strategy goes, Pai Gow poker is all about balancing your strength between your five-card poker hand and your two-card poker hand. Go to heavy on either one, you run the risk of losing the other and winning nothing at all. Go to weak on both, well, you’re going to lose anyway. My point, though, is that while you think you might be breaking up a monster hand, in reality you’re doing yourself a favor by maximizing your odds of coming out a winner.

And let me say, strategy is everything in this game. You’re not bluffing anybody out, you’re not playing against the other players, you’re only decision is really how you arrange your cards. So don’t let a gut instinct take you for a ride. Your gut is wrong, that’s why it weighs 100 lbs. by itself.

So if you keep this in mind, much of what I’ll follow with will hopefully come across as common sense. Don’t dismiss it as such, though. Pay attention to the pokerstars strategy and remember these choices, they’ll likely help give you an advantage when it matters.

Starting at the bottom, if you find your seven-card hand void of even a single pair, put your highest single card in the five-card hand, and your next highest 2 cards in the two-card hand.

If you have a single pair, you’re going to want to put that in your five-card hand, without exception. Then your two highest single cards (non-paired cards) make up your two-card hand.

It can get a little tricky when you have two-pair on Cake Poker, but if you’re hesitant, you’ll want to split them up and put the higher pair in your five-card hand and the lower pair in your two-card hand. In certain, rare situations when you’re other cards contain two high singles, such as a king, queen or and ace, 10…those will end up being worth about just as much as a low pair, so your chances are better leaving the two high singles as your two-card hand and keeping the two-pair together as part of your five-card hand.

With three of a kind on pokerstars.net, there’s a breaking point where you’ll want to break up the hand, but different experts disagree on where it should be. However, it’s generally accepted that if you have three Aces or Kings, you break it up and put the pair in the five-card hand and the high single in the two-card hand. Ultimately, whether you want to do this with a queen, as well, is up to you. But anything lower you should keep the three of a kind together in the five-card hand, and the next highest two singles go in the two-card hard.

Those are the plays for the majority of the hands you’ll end up seeing.