Patent ID: 7429046
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of conducting a card game having one or more betting rounds comprising: providing two or more players with three to five, face-down hole cards; providing multiple sets of face-up common cards such that when provided said common cards form a non-linear interrelated pattern, wherein said pattern includes three or more pre-designated groups of three common cards wherein at least two of the pre-designated groups of three common cards within the pattern include at least one same common card; regardless of a poker strength of the three to five face-down hole cards, requiring each player to discard, one at a time, hole cards such that at an end of the game each player holds two hole cards, said hole cards being discarded based on the one or more multiple sets of common cards; evaluating poker hand ranks by combining each remaining player's two hole cards with any of the pre-designated group of three common cards forming part of the pattern; and awarding one or more players a portion, or all of a pot for holding one or more winning poker hands.