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This article is about the game of dominoes. For the card game loosely based on it, see Pai gow poker.
A set of 32 Chinese dominoes. The top two rows of tiles show the eleven matching pairs, in descending value from left to right. Below them are five non-matching pairs, worth less than the matching pairs, and also in descending value from left to right. The Gee Joon ("Supreme") tiles, lower right, are not matching but rank as the highest pair overall.
Pai gow
Chinese
牌九
Literal meaning
card nine
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
pái jiǔ
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
paai4 gau2
IPA
[pʰaːi˩.kɐu˧˥]
Pai gow (/paɪˈɡaʊ/py GOW; Chinese: 牌九; Jyutping: paai4 gau2[pʰaːi˩.kɐu˧˥]) is a Chinese gambling game, played with a set of 32 Chinese dominoes. It is played in major casinos in China (including Macau); the United States (including Boston, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; Connecticut; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Mississippi; and cardrooms in California); Canada (including Edmonton, Alberta and Calgary, Alberta); Australia; and New Zealand.
The name pai gow is sometimes used to refer to a card game called pai gow poker (or "double-hand poker"), which is loosely based on pai gow. The act of playing pai gow is also colloquially known as "eating dog meat".[1]
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