Patent ID: 6871855

Claim:
An improved method of playing a Pai Gow tile game between at least one player and a banker, the Pai Gow game including players making a wager, the players and banker each receiving four tiles and arranging the tiles into a two-tile high hand and a two-tile low hand, the wagers being resolved by comparing the banker high hand and low hand to each player high hand and low hand, respectively, a banker winning outcome occurring if the player's high and low hands do not outrank the banker's high and low hands, respectively, a player winning outcome occurring if the player's high and low hands both outrank the banker's high and low hands, respectively, and a push outcome occurring if one player hand does not outrank the corresponding banker hand and the remaining player hand outranks the corresponding banker hand, the improvement comprising: defining a first subset o banker high and low hands; and if, upon comparison of the player high and low hands to the banker high and low hands, respectively, a player winning outcome is obtained and the banker high and low hands are within the first subset of banker hands, the player being rewarded at a modified rate greater than or equal to zero and less than even money; if the banker high and low hands are not within the first subset of banker hands, rewarding player winning outcomes at even money with no commission retained; collecting wagers from players on banker winning outcomes; and neither collecting nor rewarding wagers on push outcomes.