A full house is a wondrous poker hand...but this is pai gow poker and we need to win both our hands in order to win the bet.  Sadly, that almost always means splitting up a full house such that your high hand is three of a kind and your 2nd high hand is a pair.  But, as we said this is pai gow poker, so there will be some exceptions.  We will boil down the guidance into a few easy to follow rules of thumb.

• If your three of a kind is aces, always split your full house
• If your three of a kind is kings, and your pair is 44 or less, keep your full house together ONLY IF you can post A,Q or better to the 2nd high hand
• If your three of a kind is 222 thru QQQ, and your pair is 66 or less, keep your full house together ONLY IF you can post A,Q or higher to your 2nd high hand.

Let's look at some examples.  Set the following hand:

If we have three aces, we always split the full house.  Put the pair of threes in the 2nd high hand.

2nd high hand:

High hand:

Set the following hand:

Here we can keep the full house together only if we can post A,Q or higher to the 2nd high hand.  While we have the bug card, the best we can do is A,8 in the 2nd high hand if we keep the full house together.  We must split it, placing the pair of fours in the 2nd high hand.

2nd high hand: 

High hand: