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Same seven-card split as Pai Gow Poker, but the banker's hand is dealt face up before you set your own — and there's no 5% commission on a win. The trade-off: if the banker's best hand is an Ace-high hand with no pair, every player hand pushes automatically, no matter what they're holding.
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The hand-setting rules are identical to standard Pai Gow Poker — same 5-card/2-card split, same fouling rule, same hand rankings, same joker, same wheel quirk. What changes is the deal order and the payout. Here, the banker's seven cards are dealt and set by the house way face up before you arrange your own — you get to see exactly what you need to beat. In exchange for that information and for dropping the 5% commission, the casino adds one rule back in its favor: if the banker's best 5-card hand is Ace-high with no pair, every player's hand is an automatic push, regardless of what they're holding.
The guide covers only what's different here — the face-up deal, the Ace-high push rule, and the payout change — and links out to the full house way reference, which is unchanged.