Double-hand Poker Established Rules

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Let us discover some alternate variations of poker other than Texas holdem, 7 card stud, five card draw and omaha high. Yes, double-hand poker. Now you must be wondering that double-hand sounds a bit Chinese; well you’re right, this card game is a mixture of the Chinese game pai gow and poker
Clearly this isn’t one of the highly popular styles of poker but still widely played. It can be enjoyed by up to seven players. It’s played with one deck of cards, including a joker. Interestingly, joker can only be used as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush, straight flush, or royal flush. The important thing here to remember is aside from the usual ranking of hands we’ve one more winning hand which is "Five Aces" (four Aces and the Joker). Astonishingly, five aces defeats all other hand including royal flush. Every gambler is given seven cards. The cards are arranged to make 2 hands; a 2 card hand and a five card hand. The five card hand has to be better or be equivalent to the 2 card hand.
After setting up the 2 hands, the cards are positioned on the table with the faces down. Once on the table, you can’t change them. The dealer will turn over their cards and make their hands. Each players hand is played against the dealer’s hands. If the player wins one hand and lose the other, this is referred to as "push" and no money is exchanged. If croupier wins the two hands then the player gives up their wager and vice versa. Now if there is a draw, the dealer wins everything. After the hand is competed, the very next person clock-wise gets to be the dealer and the following hand is dealt.