Is player banking in Pai Gow Poker dying?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

What if you're playing BJ and betting the maximum? Does this limit your ability to split and double down?

No. The limit applies to each initial wager. You can still double, split, and bet more than one spot. I've seen it happen where a player wanted to bet more than the maximum, and the dealer suggested betting the max on two hands.

Quote: Wizard

I just asked about this at the Red Rock. Two dealers and a supervisor all said they would not allow going over the maximum in a player banking situation. When I pressed the supervisor about why ,she said that they have to get their maximums approved by the Gaming Control Board, and it would violate Gaming regulations to exceed them.

I just asked the same question at the Mandalay Bay, and they said that increasing a maximum bet has to get approved pretty high up, I think a casino vice president. They added it is usually only done to known good customers. When I asked if Gaming needs to approve, they said 'no.' Then I asked about the pai gow poker situation, and they said it would be unlikely to be approved, just on the principle that they don't like to raise their maximum bets to unknown customers.

Quote: Wizard

I predict that player banking will fade away, either with rule changes like the one you mentioned, or with variants like EZ Pai Gow Poker that don't allow it to begin with.

I've always felt that Banking was as helpful or as useful to Pai Gow poker as it was to Blackjack and roulette - which never had it or never needed it! It is a vestage of its card room beginings, and is as unnecessary as boobs on a bull. I mean, if you wish to bank, you can play Pai Gow Poker in player-banked card rooms without disrupting a house-banked pit game.

I designed my EZ Pai Gow poker to "very strongly discourage" player banking, but to allow it if the house insists that it somehow helps. The Ameristar group eliminated it for EZ Pai Gow, while at the Fiesta, we force only the Banker to pay commissions, - letting the players go commission-free against the banker.