Patent ID: 6776415
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method for playing a casino card game in which at least one player competes against a dealer using at least one deck of poker cards, an object being to get a two card hand or hands having the total face value of poker cards to add up to a predetermined target number where face cards are set at a value different than their face or numerical value, comprisingeach player making one wager by placing one or more betting tokens in a player's bet area; each player making an optional second wager by placing one or more betting tokens into a Jackpot Side bet area; each player receiving four poker cards face up in a player's dealt card area; the dealer receiving four poker cards face down in a dealer's dealt card area; each player's four poker cards being face up, where said player has made a second wager placing one or more betting tokens into the Jackpot Side bet area, are measured against a predetermined Winning Combinations and Payoff odds Table and the player is paid accordingly; each player sorting the four cards in the player's dealt card area and splitting then into two separate hands of two cards each and placing one hand in the player's front hand card area and one hand in the player's back hand card area, provided that the total face value of the hand in the player's back hand card area must not be lower than the total face value of the hand in the player's front hand card area; the dealer turning over the four cards in the dealer's dealt card area and sorting the four cards into two two card hands, according to a predetermined house strategy, and placing one two card hand in the dealer's front hand card area and one two card hand into the dealer's back hand area, provided that the total face value of the hand in the dealer's back hand card area must not be lower than the total face value of the hand in the dealer's front hand card area; comparing the total face value of the cards in each player's front hand card area to the total face value of the cards in the dealer's front hand card area and comparing the total face value of the cards in each player's back hand card area with the total face value of the cards in the dealer's back hand card area and the dealer paying an amount of betting tokens equal to those placed into the player's bet area or taking tokens therefrom based upon a predetermined house formula which includes a means to determine and resolve ties; resolving a tie between a player and the dealer by dealing two poker cards face up in a Tie Breaker card area, the first card being the player's tie breaker card and the second card being the dealer's tie breaker card, having the value of each counted as the poker card ranks in a poker deck with the highest ranked card winning, suits being irrelevant and the dealer winning ties; the dealer charging a predetermined commission on all winning bets; the predetermined house strategy for sorting the dealers four cards into two card hands comprising sorting the two poker cards placed into the dealer's back hand card area to have a high as possible total face value, except when that sorting would determine the two poker cards in the dealer's front hand card area would have a total face value of zero and the face value of the poker cards in the dealer's back hand card area would total less than 9, in which case the dealer must sort both two card hands so as to have a total face value as close to each other as possible. while the total face value of the two poker cards in the dealer's back hand card area must still be equal to or greater than the total face value of the two poker cards in the dealer's front hand card area.