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Let’s learn some alternate types of poker other than Texas holdem, 5 card stud, five card draw and Omaha. Yes, double-hand poker. Now you might be wondering that double-hand sounds a bit Chinese; well you’re correct, this game is a mixture of the Chinese game pai gow and our own American poker
Certainly this isn’t one of the highly popular types of poker but still broadly played. It can be played by up to seven players. It’s played with 1 deck of cards, plus a joker. Interestingly, joker can only be used as an ace, or to finish off a straight, a flush, a straight flush, or royal flush. The important element here to remember is apart from the normal ranking of hands we have one more winning hand that is "Five Aces" (4 Aces and the Joker). Astonishingly, 5 aces beats all other hand yes, even a royal flush. Each gambler is dealt 7 cards. These cards are aligned to make two hands; a two card hand and a five card hand. The five card hand has to be better or be equivalent to the two card hand.
After setting up the two hands, the cards are placed on the poker table with the faces down. Once on the table, you can no longer switch them. The dealer will turn over their cards and make his hands. Each players hand is played against the dealer’s hands. If the player take 1 hand and lose the other, this is called a "push" and absolutely no money is lost or won. If dealer wins the two hands then the player looses their bet and vice versa. Now if the hand is a tie, the dealer wins everything. After the hand is played, the very next player clock-wise gets to be the croupier and the following hand is given out.