Patent ID: 6446973
Filing Date: 2002-09-10
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a game of cards using a deck of only forty-five cards including three each of the following card groups: twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens, eights, nines, tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces of three different suits with each card of each group being of a different suit, said deck further including three Jokers and three additional cards having indicia thereon representing the three different suits but with each of the additional cards having a different value from the value of the other additional cards, said method comprising the steps of allowing each of several players the opportunity to place a bet; dealing six cards to each player and to a dealer; giving each player the opportunity of dividing his cards into two hands of three cards each; comparing each player's two hands to the dealer's two hands and determining whether the dealer or player has won based on a predetermined ranking of hands.