Provider: LNW
Type of Game: Poker
Min: $0.10
Max: $100.00
RTP: 97.47%
How to Play:
- Fortune Pai Gow Poker is a seven-card poker game.
- Players aim to create two poker hands (a two-card and five-card poker hand) out of the seven-card hand dealt, that beats both of the dealer’s hands.
- The five-card hand’s rank must exceed that of the two-card hand, or the round will be forfeited.
Key Terms/Features:
Game Design:
- The default game size is 1920 x 1080 and comprises two main elements - the video game area and the game panel area.
- The video game area is displayed in the upper area of the screen. The betting options can be accessed at the bottom of the screen. In addition, all winning information is displayed over each respected game area, and the paytable is accessible in the upper left area.
- The game panel area can be accessed at the bottom of the screen. This includes the current total balance and total bet value.
User Interface:
- Select arrows or alternatively select chips directly to choose a bet.
- Select each area (standard bet area and Fortune Bonus bet area) to place a bet.
- Select each button to carry out the respective gameplay function.
Game Rules:
Placing Bets:
- The game uses a 53-card deck, consisting of a single 52-card deck plus a joker. The joker is semi-wild and can be used to complete a straight, a flush, a straight flush or a royal flush by substituting for any card. It can also be used as an Ace in any hand.
- To begin the game, the player must make a bet in the standard bet area.
- The Fortune Bonus bet is optional and can only be bet on before the cards are dealt.
- Both five-card hands and two-card hands will be compared.
- If both of the player’s hands beat both of the dealer’s hands, the player wins.
- If only one of the player’s hands beats the dealer’s hands, the bets push.
- If both of the player’s hands lose to the dealer’s hands, the player loses.
- If there is a tie (the player and dealer have exactly the same hand), the dealer wins that hand.
Game Play:
- After betting, the player and the dealer will receive seven cards each.
- The player must split their seven-card hand into a five-card and a two-card hand. The five-card hand’s rank must exceed that of the two-card hand, or the round will be forfeited.
- The five-card hand must be of a higher rank than the two-card hand.
- The dealer will then split their seven-card hand into a five-card and a two-card hand.
Side Bet:
Fortune Bonus:
- The Fortune Bonus is an optional bet.
- The Fortune Bonus evaluates the Player’s 7 cards and pays out according to the paytable.
- Hands from a Straight to a 7-card Straight Flush are awarded.
- All paying hand ranks are shown in the paytable.
- The Fortune Bonus does not take into account how cards are split into 5 and 2-card hands during the game.
Ranking of Hands
5 Card Poker Hands:
- 5 Aces (contains 4 Aces and a Joker)
- Royal Flush (contains the following cards of the same suit: A, K, Q, J, 10)
- Straight Flush (all cards are in sequential rank and of the same suit)
- Four of a Kind (contains four cards of the same rank)
- Full House (contains three matching cards of one rank, and two matching cards of another rank)
- Flush (all cards are of the same suit
- Straight (all cards are of sequential rank in at least two different suits)
- Three of a Kind (contains three cards of the same rank)
- Two Pair (contains two cards of the same rank, plus two more of another matching rank)
- Pair (contains two cards of the same rank)
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High Card (the highest ranking card in the hand)
2 Card Poker Hands
- Pair (contains two cards of the same rank)
- High Card (the highest ranking card in the hand)
5 Card Straights:
- The highest straight is Ace-K-Q-J-10.
- The second highest straight is Ace-2-3-4-5 (the wheel).
- Afterward, the highest card of a straight determines its value e.g. a Q-J-10-9-8 outranks an 8-7-6-5-4.
- Note that the value of a card ascends sequentially from 2-10, and then according to the following:
- Jack (denoted by a J)
- Queen (denoted by a Q)
- King (denoted by a K)
- Ace (denoted by an A)
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When evaluating a hand, only the highest possible rank within the player’s cards is considered (while a Straight Flush contains both a Straight and a Flush, it is calculated solely as a Straight Flush). Ace is high except in the 3-2-Ace sequence. Note that side bets are paid according to the pay table.
Pay Table:
- Standard Payouts
- Win both hands = 1:1
- Win one hand, lose one hand = PUSH
- Lose both hands (Dealer Wins) = No payout
- Draw any hand (Dealer Wins that hand)
- Royal Flush with Royal Match refers to a 7-card hand, consisting of:
- Royal Flush (contains the following cards of the same suit: A, K, Q, J, 10)
- Royal Match (contains the following cards of the same suit: K, Q)
- Whereas the K & Q of the Royal Match are of a different suit to the K & Q of the Royal Flush.
- Joker can be used to make this hand.
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Fortune Bonus Payouts: