The game is less popular than blackjack and craps. It’s also offered by all of the top-shelf gambling websites, such as Bovada Casino and Slots.lv. Pai gow poker is now played in nearly every casino in the U.S. To save his club and appeal to the area’s increasingly Asian population, he devised a card-based variant of Pai gow. Torosian was the owner of the Bell Club, a struggling casino in Southern California. Most historical accounts credit a man named Sam Torosian with its invention.
It’s played with a standard deck of playing cards rather than Chinese dominoes. As its name suggests, Pai gow poker is an offshoot of the Chinese game Pai gow.
