Patent ID: 7481434
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a pai gow-type game with at least one set of playing tokens, said method comprising the steps of: (a) defining a house way for arranging hands into a high hand and a low hand, said high hand having a higher rank than said low hand, and said house way leaving no discretion in said arranging; (b) a dealer dealing out said playing tokens to a plurality of player hands and one banker hand; (c) prior to and during said dealing, permitting at least one player to wager on one or more of said player hands; (d) said dealer arranging said playing tokens in said banker hand into a banker high hand and a banker low hand according to said house way; (e) said dealer arranging said playing tokens in each of said player hands into a player high hand and a player low hand according to said house way; (f) comparing said player high hand to said banker high hand; (g) comparing said player low hand to said banker low hand; (h) identifying each of said player hands as a winning hand if said player high hand has a higher rank than said banker high hand and said player low hand has a higher rank than said banker low hand; and (i) identifying a winning wager as a wager placed on said winning hand.