Sources and rule references

Primary rule references

• Fallsview Casino Resort — Pai Gow Tiles Gaming GuideDeal, ranking order, tie procedure, commission and setting hints.
• California Department of Justice — Parkwest Casino 580August 2025 approved rules, pair-splitting chart and no-pair house way.
• California Department of Justice — Star’s Casino Pai Gow Tiles RulesApproved procedures, hand ranking, house way and player-dealer settlement.
• Nevada Gaming Control Board — Approved GamesCurrent repository for approved game variations and side-bet rules.

Independent rules references

• Pagat — Pai GowTraditional play, deal and terminology.
• Generic Pai Gow Tiles House WayA teaching framework for balancing hands and understanding common pair-splitting logic.

How we handle differences

We do not present one casino’s pair-splitting chart as universal. When a payout, banking procedure or house way can change, we say so and direct the player to the posted rules.

References

Document details

• Fallsview Casino Resort, Pai Gow Tiles Gaming Guide (casino PDF).
• Parkwest Casino 580, BGC ID GEGR-002327, August 2025 (California Department of Justice PDF).
• Star’s Casino, BGC ID GEGA-004486, March 2015 (California Department of Justice PDF).
• Generic Pai Gow Tiles House Way, William E. Brennan, 2010 (Wizard of Odds PDF).

The odds on this site are not taken from any of these documents. We computed them from the tile set itself; the method is on the odds page.

Reading

Books

We do not cite books for rule claims, because a posted casino procedure outranks any book. For background reading, this search lists Pai Gow strategy titles.