Wally plays pai gow

Every pai gow player on the board should Must check out the Jan 23 Dilbert cartoon.

good one.

Wally was me a few days ago, except it was after playing craps.

That was me at pai gow poker yesterday. Me: 2 pair kings and queens. Dealer: quad Aces. Me: 9 high straight with q7 up Dealer: 10 high straight with q9 up.

Hehe, nice.

I've heard people state that after too many drinks, they can no longer play Pai Gow effectively. Which is odd to me, since you don't even have to do anything, as you can let the house set your hand. Sure, it might not be the way you would want to do it if you were sober, but it still works. These same people think that Blackjack gets easier as they get drunker, so I really don't understand.

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I've heard people state that after too many drinks, they can no longer play Pai Gow effectively. Which is odd to me, since you don't even have to do anything, as you can let the house set your hand. Sure, it might not be the way you would want to do it if you were sober, but it still works. These same people think that Blackjack gets easier as they get drunker, so I really don't understand.

While the comic strip is ambiguous (I'm not sure if it is referring to Pai Gow or Pai Gow Poker), it kinds of reminds me of an experience I had playing tiles at the Wynn once.

I think I had already had 2 Long Island Iced Teas (which they make pretty well at the Wynn), and was working on my 3rd. I was playing near-optimal strategy, setting hands like 1/8 instead of 3/6, and so on. The dealer and pit boss were making fun of how I was playing (especially when it resulted in a worse outcome than the house way would have), but I was overly confident and boasting that I knew what I was doing ... and then, of course, I made a really stupid mistake that put me in my place.

I was small-talking with the dealer at the time, picking up my tiles individually to look at them, and setting them absent-mindedly. I had L7-Teen-H4-L7 and ended up playing 1/9 instead of 6/Pair. (It resulted in a push instead of a win, if I remember correctly.) The dealer happily pointed out, "You know, you had a pair."

I didn't order any more Long Islands, and I think I only played one more hand before I made my sheepish exit.

Well, it makes more sense if it means Pai Gow, considering that Dilbert is a nerd. PGP is a very easy game to learn and non-obvious plays are borderline anyway. On the other hand, if you can't recognize Wongs and military pairs...

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Every pai gow player on the board should Must check out the Jan 23 Dilbert cartoon.

Hysterical. I love Dilbert, and I swear Scott Adams saw the downfall of Sears years before it happened...

I'm pretty sure the cartoon refers to Pai Gow Poker, as the absolute basic gambler would have a hard time learning how to play the game. Kudos to the reference though... I imagine it will be a serial for a week.

I think the strip is an "exit" from last week, which had Wally as an accidental billionaire. He had to come back to earth somehow.

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I didn't order any more Long Islands, and I think I only played one more hand before I made my sheepish exit.

A sheepish and perhaps expensive exit then ... but a lesson well learned that probably saved you a good deal of money later.