Patent ID: 6203018
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A card game and method of play for a unique poker game having a different winning hand hierarchy from standard poker games comprising, for play by several players and a dealer in combination;providing a standard deck of playing cards comprised of fifty-two cards and two jokers;selecting a banker player from among the players;providing a starting point for the playing cards to be distributed;requiring each of the players to place a bet;allowing dealer to distribute five cards to each of the seven seats;allowing players and dealer to look at cards dealt to their respective seat;determining if any of the players and dealer is an automatic winner by having a low card straight flush in clubs;allowing each player to fold and relinquish a predetermined portion of their bet;allowing all players who have not folded to choose to receive up to two new cards by relinquishing a same number of cards;reading all of the player's cards and comparing with the cards of the banker/player to determine if any of the players are winners according to the card hierarchy, wherein the hierarchy dictates that straight flushes with all cards having a face value of no greater than eight categorically beat non-straight flushes of cards having a face value of no greater than eight which in turn categorically beat non-flush straights of cards having a face value of no greater than eight, which categorically beat non-straights non-flush hands of cards having a face value of no greater than eight, and wherein the heirarchy further dictates that within each of said categories a hand with a lower highest card will prevail;requiring the dealer to match the bets of the players who were determined winners and requiring players who are determined losers to relinquish their bet to the dealer.