Patent ID: 6382628
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
Method for playing a multiple-deck card game, comprising:(A) establishing a principal participant who: (i) designates a version of a showdown card game in the poker family to be utilized in play of a round of the card game, (ii) establishes the number of participants for such round, and (iii) identifies the number of cards for forming a FLOP; (B) dealing the identified number of cards for such FLOP; (C) such principal participant selecting COMMUNITY CARDS from such FLOP to be used by each such participant with the number of such COMMUNITY CARDS which can be established based on the number of cards in a hand of the designated card; (D) providing for at least one separate individual deck of cards for each such participant; (E) removing such COMMUNITY CARDS from each individual deck to be used by such a participant; (F) distributing a predetermined number of cards to each participant from remaining cards, in each such respective separate deck of cards, for each hand being played by such a participant; with (i) the same number of cards being dealt from each respective individual deck, (ii) such number of cards being established as the number necessary for combining with such COMMUNITY CARDS, to form a hand capable of being played in such selected version of a showdown game of poker; and (G) evaluating the combination of cards held by each hand of each respective participant in such round.