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Card game

  • US 7,364,161 B2
  • Filed: 09/01/2004
  • Issued: 04/29/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of playing a card game among a plurality of Players and a Banker, each Player wagering against the Banker, comprising the steps of:

  • (a) providing and shuffling at least one standard poker deck of 52 cards plus at least one Joker, wherein the Joker may be used as an Ace or to complete a Straight or Flush;

    (b) placing either a Poker Bet wager or Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager, or both;

    (c) placing an optional Bonus Bet wager;

    (d) dealing cards, seven cards dealt either at one time or proportionally, into enough dealt hands of seven cards to provide a dealt hand for each Player and for the Banker;

    (e) determining which dealt hand is assigned to each Player and which dealt hand is assigned to the Banker;

    (f) from their own seven-card dealt hand, each Player and the Banker selecting and keeping their own best 5-card poker hand and discarding two other cards;

    (g) determining whether each Player'"'"'s Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager wins or loses, if any;

    (h) settling each Player'"'"'s Pair Of Aces Or Better wager against the Banker;

    (i) determining whether each Player'"'"'s Poker Bet wager wins, loses or ties, if any;

    wherein each Player'"'"'s best 5-card poker hand is compared to the Banker'"'"'s best 5-card poker hand according to the rankings wherein hands are ranked in descending order as follows;

    5 Aces, Royal Flush, Straight Flush, 4 of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, 3 of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair and High Card;

    wherein Ace is the highest High Card, following by King, Queen, Jack, Ten, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2;

    wherein A2345 is the second highest Straight and that it is suited, A2345 is the second highest Straight Flush;

    (j) settling each Player'"'"'s Poker Bet wager against the Banker;

    (k) determining whether each Player'"'"'s Bonus Bet wager wins, loses, or ties, if any; and

    (l) settling each Player'"'"'s Bonus Bet wager against the Banker.

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