Gee Joon is the highest pair in Pai Gow Tiles. It uses the 1–2 tile and the 2–4 tile.
The two tiles do not match visually, but together they outrank every other pair. That exception is easy to miss when you are learning from dot patterns alone.
Each Gee Joon tile may count as either three or six. Use the value that produces the better hand. This flexibility applies to point counting; it does not let the tile imitate any named tile.
A Gee Joon tile with a three-point tile can be counted as six plus three, making nine, instead of three plus three, making six.
Values
When the two Gee Joon tiles are split up, each one counts as three or six. This table shows which choice wins beside a tile of each pip total.
| Other tile (pips) | Counted as 3 | Counted as 6 | Best total | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2Day | 5 | 8 | 8 | Six |
| 4Bon, Gor | 7 | 0 | 7 | Three |
| 5Chop Ng | 8 | 1 | 8 | Three |
| 6Chong, Look | 9 | 2 | 9 | Three |
| 7Chop Chit, Tit | 0 | 3 | 3 | Six |
| 8Chop Bot, Yun | 1 | 4 | 4 | Six |
| 9Chop Gow | 2 | 5 | 5 | Six |
| 10Mooy, Ping | 3 | 6 | 6 | Six |
| 11Foo | 4 | 7 | 7 | Six |
| 12Teen | 5 | 8 | 8 | Six |
Odds
Both Gee Joon tiles land in the same four-tile deal 435 times out of 35,960: 1.21%, or about once every 83 deals. For comparison, at least one pair of any kind shows up in 19.02% of deals. More figures are on the odds page.
House way
Parkwest Casino 580’s 2025 chart splits Gee Joon only with 12-, 11- or 10-dot tiles. Star’s Casino’s approved rules split it when the third tile has six spots and the fourth has four, five or six. Other tables can differ, so ask for the posted house way. Our house-way comparison sets the published charts side by side.
Names
Gee Joon is not a separate game in any of the rulebooks we use. It is the name of the supreme pair inside Pai Gow Tiles: the 1–2 and the 2–4. Pai Gow Poker is a different, card-based game. The full comparison covers all three names.
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In any complete set, the two Gee Joon tiles are the only 1–2 and 2–4. If either is missing, the supreme pair is gone.
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