Patent ID: 6439573
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
In a method for playing a casino card having playing cards ranked in a conventional manner wherein deuces, or two's, are the lowest ranked playing cards, aces are the highest ranked playing cards, and eights are trump, the steps comprised of:providing a standard playing deck of 52 cards; adding at least one additional playing card having a value of eight to said deck; beginning a hand of play for a game; shuffling said deck; each player makes a prediction as to whether a dealt playing card n will be a HI or LO card; a dealer deals said card n; if said card n is an eight of any suit, all said players lose said game and said game is finished; if said card n is higher in rank than an eight, all said players who bet LO, lose said hand; if said card n is lower in rank than an eight, all said players who bet HI, lose said hand; wherein all said players who lost said hand no longer participate until a next game n+1 begins; wherein all said players who correctly predicted the relationship between said card n and their respective said prediction win said hand and are winning players for said hand; wherein said winning players may either collect their winning or may become players of a hand n+1; wherein each of said players of said hand n+1 makes a prediction as to whether the next dealt playing card n+1 will be a HI or LO card; each of said players of said hand n+l places a wager of equal value to their original wager made in hand n; said dealer deals said card n+1; and if said card n+1 is an eight of any suit, all said players of said hand n+1 lose said game and said game is finished.