Patent ID: 7438293
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method for playing a communal card poker game between one or more players and a dealer, comprising: requiring each player to submit an initial commission to participate in a hand of the communal card poker game; facilitating placement of a wager, distinct from the initial commission, by each of the one or more participating players; requiring the dealer to call the wagers placed by the one or more players; determining a hand outcome based on a comparison of the respective resulting hands of each of the players and the resulting hand of the dealer, each of the resulting hands comprising a subset of a set of cards including a plurality of community cards and a respective starting hand for each of the players and the dealer; providing payouts to any of the one or more players whose resulting hand has a higher poker rank than the resulting hand of the dealer; and the dealer collecting the initial commission of each player.