Patent ID: 6588757
Filing Date: 2003-07-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method of playing a card game among a plurality of Players and a Banker, each Player wagering against the Banker, the method comprising the following steps:(a) providing and shuffling at least one standard poker deck of 52 cards plus four Jokers or at least one standard deck of 52 cards wherein either four Deuces, four Threes, four Fours, four Fives, four Sixes, four Sevens, four Eights, four Nines, four Tens, four Jacks, four Queens, four Kings, or four Aces are Wild Cards; (b) each Player placing at least one wager of Kings Two Pair Or Better Bet, Aces Two Pair Or Better Bet, 3 Of A Kind Or Better Bet, Straight Or Better Bet, Flush Or Better Bet, Full House Or Better Bet, 4 Of A Kind Or Better Bet and Bonus Bet; (c) dealing cards into enough dealt hands of seven cards to provide a dealt hand for the Banker and for each Player; (d) determining which dealt hand is assigned to each Player and which dealt hand is assigned to the Banker; (e) from each Player's own seven dealt cards, he or she selecting his or her best 5-card poker hand and discarding two other cards; (f) determining whether each Player's wager or wagers win, lose or tie; wherein each of said Jokers or Wild Cards may be used as any card; wherein a Player's Kings Two Pair Or Better Bet wager wins if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is Aces Two Pair, 3 of a Kind, Straight, Flush, Full House, 4 of a kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the player's said wager pushes and no money is won or lost if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is Kings Two Pair; wherein the Player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is neither one of the aforesaid winning hands nor Kings Two Pair; wherein a Player's Aces Two Pair Or Better Bet wager wins if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is Aces Two Pair, 3 of a Kind, Straight, Flush, Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the Player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's 3 Of A Kind Or Better Bet wager wins if said Player's best 5-card poker hand is 3 of a Kind, Straight, Flush, Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined 3 Of A Kind Or Better Bet pay table; wherein the player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's Straight Or Better Bet wager wins if said Player's best 5-card poker hand is Straight, Flush, Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's Flush Or Better Bet wager wins if said Player's best 5-card poker hand is Flush, Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's Full House Or Better Bet wager wins if said Player's best 5-card poker hand is Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the Player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's 4 Of A Kind Or Better Bet wager wins if said Player's best 5-card poker hand is 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the player's said wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; wherein a Player's Bonus Bet wager wins if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is Full House, 4 of a Kind, Straight Flush, 5 of a Kind or Royal Flush, and is paid according to a predetermined pay table; wherein the Player's Bonus Bet wager loses if the Player's best 5-card poker hand is not one of the aforesaid winning hands; and (g) settling each Player's wager or wagers against the Banker.