Recommended online casinos

TXAccountant
TXAccountant
TXAccountant
  • Threads: 1
  • Posts: 2
Joined: Oct 6, 2025
October 8th, 2025 at 6:48:30 AM permalink
I'm making my first post-COVID trip to Vegas at the end of the month. I understand that Face-Up Pai Gow Poker has largely replaced Face-Down.

Is anyone aware of any Face-Down games that are still available? I'm open to playing anywhere in the Las Vegas valley.

Thanks, and I'll be happy to report back what I find.
aceside
aceside
aceside
  • Threads: 2
  • Posts: 795
Joined: May 14, 2021
October 8th, 2025 at 6:57:12 AM permalink
Face-down must be available everywhere. Face-up are rarities. Do you do player banking a lot?
harris
harris
harris
  • Threads: 28
  • Posts: 174
Joined: Jun 30, 2025
Thanked by
Calder
October 9th, 2025 at 12:05:05 PM permalink
In what alternate universe is face-down Pai Gow available everywhere?

I have never seen it and I have been to maybe 40 casinos with the main purpose of scoping out what games they have.
aceside
aceside
aceside
  • Threads: 2
  • Posts: 795
Joined: May 14, 2021
October 9th, 2025 at 12:50:47 PM permalink
I’m a new gambler, focusing mainly on the east side.
TXAccountant
TXAccountant
TXAccountant
  • Threads: 1
  • Posts: 2
Joined: Oct 6, 2025
Thanked by
harris
October 10th, 2025 at 11:05:22 AM permalink
Maybe I received wrong info, but friends who have been to Vegas recently have told me that they're only seeing the Face-Up version (at least on the Strip).

Edited for typo.
AutomaticMonkey
AutomaticMonkey 
AutomaticMonkey
  • Threads: 18
  • Posts: 1072
Joined: Sep 30, 2024
Thanked by
harrisDieter
October 10th, 2025 at 11:43:09 AM permalink
As far as I can tell, traditional pai gow cards no longer exists in Vegas, anywhere.

The Chinese tell me they don't like the face-up version, and I think that's the whole point.
bw
bw
bw
  • Threads: 7
  • Posts: 308
Joined: Aug 9, 2012
October 11th, 2025 at 9:21:13 AM permalink
Last time I was at Arizona Charlies on Decatur they had Face Down Pai gow with banking permitted, but it has been awhile so I would check with them first.
Wizard
Administrator
Wizard
Wizard
  • Threads: 1537
  • Posts: 27807
Joined: Oct 14, 2009
October 11th, 2025 at 12:32:52 PM permalink
I haven't specifically looked, but it seems like at least five years since I've seen face-down pai gow poker.

By the way, please don't call the game with cards just "pai gow." It is pai gow poker. Pai gow is played with tiles.
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)
RSS Feed
  • Jump to: