Editing Pai gow poker (section)

== History ==
Sam Torosian, owner of the Bell Card Club in Los Angeles, conceptualized the game of Pai Gow Poker in 1985. The idea for the game came to Torosian after being told about the game [[Chinese poker|Pusoy]] by an elderly Filipino customer. He figured that the 13-card game with players arranging three hands would be too slow, but a simplified two-hand version with only seven cards would be faster and easier for players to learn. The game quickly became popular and by the late 1980s was being played on the [[Las Vegas Strip]], and eventually worldwide. Torosian famously failed to patent the game he created after being given advice by noted poker author [[Mike Caro]] and an attorney he consulted, both of whom told him that the game was not patentable.<ref name="lat_torosian" />