Patent ID: 6637748
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a card game between at least one player and a dealer using conventional playing cards, comprising:the dealer dealing four cards to an initial player hand; the dealer dealing four cards to an initial dealer hand; examining the initial player hand and initial dealer hand; if the initial player hand comprises four of a kind and the initial dealer hand does not comprise a higher ranking four of kind, the initial player hand being declared a winning hand and play ending with respect to that initial player hand; otherwise, selecting three cards from the initial player hand to form a final player hand and selecting three cards from the initial dealer hand to form a final dealer hand; comparing the final player hand to the final dealer hand according to the following ranking in descending order: three of a kind of face cards, pair of face cards with an unmatched face card, three unmatched face cards, three of a kind of threes, and all other hands assigned the sum of the face values of the cards modulo ten, wherein ten-spot cards and face cards have a value of zero; and declaring the higher ranking hand to be a wining hand.