Pai gow hit the right buttons among gamblers and by the late 1980s, and the early 1990s had taken both the Las Vegas strip and the world by storm. He opined that a simple two hands version of the game with 7 cards would be more exciting than the traditional 13 card game with players arranging three hands. Sam liked the idea of such a game after he was told about the rudimentary of Pusoy by one of his club’s customers. Also known as the double-hand poker, it was introduced in the United States of America by Sam Torosian, the Bell Card Club owner. Pai gow poker is an offshoot of pai gow, a game played with cards instead of the conventional Chinese dominoes.