Playing A Pan Hand With the Late Mac James

A Series of Classic Hands from Pan: The Gambler’s Card Game by Mac James

Now we’re going to deal out some hands and play some Pan. These are typical hands containing the kinds of traps which we fall into if we aren’t careful. Get out your Pan deck and play along.

Using EIGHT PLAY; SEVEN WITH PAY I value the hand playable -- seven working cards and a pay. (Four Queens work, A-2-3 is a working pay.) I am first; I go. Four other players, including two very good ones, jump in behind me, and the five-man game is on. This can prove expensive if I don’t put it out.

My very first draw is the AS. So I immediately meld AS AS AC. No more pat for one of AC 2C 3C. I discard the 5S. I have done what is called “putting a pat in jail,” by taking a pay spread from my hand, using part of it to form a non-pay spread. I’m hoping now, of course, for any other Ace. I can then take the AC off the three-of-a-kind, which has grown to four, leaving three Aces and meld my pay rope. After paying out four chips to the other players for pay spreads they have made, I catch the best card in the deck for me -- AS. It gives me two different pays at once! AS AS AS, worth two, and the pay I put in jail comes out and I get one more for AC 2C 3C. I throw away the 7C. I have four good Queens left in my hand; I’m flat and the opponents don’t know it! I pay out three more chips to other players as one of the really good players goes flat. Then I catch my third -- and last -- hit. The lovely lady - QS. I have gone out in Spades. Look what the hand is worth!

Compare that payoff to poker. Have you even put $8 in a pot and pulled in $56? See why I love Pan?

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