Patent ID: 7121550
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a card game comprising the following steps: (a) providing and shuffling at least one standard poker deck of 52 cards plus at least one Joker; wherein each said Joker can be used as an Ace, or to form a Straight or Flush; (b) each Player placing either a Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager betting on the content of the Player's hand or a Poker Bet wager betting against the Banker's hand, or both; (c) dealing cards into enough dealt hands of seven cards to provide a dealt hand for each Player and for the Banker; (d) determining which dealt hand is assigned to each Player and which dealt hand is assigned to the Banker; (e) from their own seven-card dealt hand, each Player and the Banker selecting their own best 5-card poker hand and discarding two other cards; (f) determining whether each Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager wins or loses, if any; wherein a Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wins if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is a pair of Aces, Two Pair, 3 of a Kind, Straight, Flush, Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, Royal Flush or 5 Aces; wherein this wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of aforesaid winning hands; (g) settling each Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager with the Banker; (h) determining whether each Player's Poker Bet wager wins, loses or ties, if any; wherein each Player's best 5-card poker hand is compared to the Banker's according to the rankings of the Poker Bet game from the highest rank to the lowest rank as follows: 5 Aces, Royal Flush, Straight Flush, 4 of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, 3 of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair, and High Card; Ace is the highest High Card, following by King, Queen, Jack, Ten, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2; and (i) settling each Player's Poker Bet wager with the Banker.