The Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino exclusively launches casino card game, Asia Poker. Based on an ancient Chinese game called "13,” Asia Poker combines the elements of the increasingly popular Pai Gow Poker and the speed and excitement of the American game of Heads Up Poker. Asia Poker is making its Las Vegas debut and is available only at The Rio which is serving as the test site for this exciting seven card, three-hand game.

 “We are thrilled to be the test site for Asia Poker,” said Steven Crone, Table Games Supervisor at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. “The Rio is the only place in the entire state that you can play this game. Our guests have the opportunity to be the first to play this easy to learn game and they can do it right now.”

To play Asia Poker, each player at the table is dealt seven cards, which the player arranges to make three hands; a one-card hand, a two-card hand and a four-card hand. Each player sets their hands in a ranking order, arranging the cards into a high hand, medium hand and low hand. When setting the three hands, the four card high hand must be equal to or higher in rank than the two card medium hand, and the two card medium hand must be equal to or higher in rank than the one card low hand.

A player wins if any two of the player's three hands (high, medium or low hand) are higher in rank than any of the dealer's corresponding three hands (high, medium or low hand). If any one of the player's three hands is identical in rank to the corresponding hand of the dealer this is a tie. Ties are also called "copy hands," and the dealer wins all copy hands. Asia Poker is currently available in the table games area of the Rio’s casino.