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Let’s discover some alternate variations of poker other than texas hold’em, five card stud, five card draw and omaha high. Yes, double-hand poker. Now you might be wondering that double-hand sounds a bit Chinese; yes you are right, this game is a mixture of the Chinese game pai gow and poker
Clearly this isn’t one of the highly popular styles of poker but still widely played. It can be played by up to 7 players. It’s played with 1 deck of cards, with a joker. Interestingly, the Joker can be used only as an ace, or to complete a straight, a flush, a straight flush, or royal flush. The essential aspect here to remember is aside from the typical ranking of hands we have one more winning hand which is "Five Aces" (5 aces including the joker). Surprisingly, 5 aces beats every other hand yes, even a royal flush. Every player is dealt 7 cards. The cards are arranged to make 2 hands; a 2 card hand and a five card hand. The 5 card hand has to be stronger or be equivalent to the two card hand.
After setting up the 2 hands, the cards are laid on the poker table face down. Once down, you are no longer allowed to touch them. The dealer will flip over his cards and make their hands. Each competitors hand is played against the croupier’s hands. Should the player take one hand and loses the other, this is called a "push" and no cash is exchanged. If croupier wins both hands then the player looses their bet the opposite is true if the player wins both hands. Now if the hand is a tie, the croupier wins everything. Once the hand is competed, the next person clock-wise becomes the croupier and the next hand is dealt.

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