Patent ID: 7631875
Filing Date: 2009-12-15
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a table card game using a deck of playing cards, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing the deck of cards as either a physical deck of cards or as a deck of cards depicted on a monitor; b) allowing a player to make an optional first wager as to whether a predetermined number of cards in a first hand to be dealt to the player from the deck of playing cards will add up to a qualifying value; c) allowing the player to optionally make a first bonus wager as to whether the predetermined number of cards of the first hand dealt to the player that will add up to the qualifying value will also be a predetermined bonus combination; d) allowing the player to optionally make a second chance wager as to whether the predetermined number of cards in a second chance hand dealt from the deck of playing cards will add up to the qualifying value; e) allowing the player to optionally make a second chance bonus wager as to whether the predetermined number of cards in the second chance hand that will add up to the qualifying value will also be the predetermined bonus combination; f) dealing the first hand to the player and the second chance hand as a community hand; g) determining whether a predetermined number of cards in the first hand add up to the qualifying value; h) paying the player a first predetermined amount based on the amount of the player's first wager if the predetermined number of cards in the first hand add up to the qualifying value, and paying the player a second predetermined amount based on the amount of the player's optional bonus wager, if any, if the predetermined number of cards that add up to the qualifying value are the predetermined bonus combination; i) collecting the player's first wager if the predetermined number of cards in the first hand do not add up to the qualifying value, and collecting the player's optional first bonus wager, if any, if the predetermined number of cards in the first hand that add up to the qualifying value are not the predetermined bonus combination; j) determining whether a predetermined number of cards in the second chance hand add up to the qualifying value; k) paying the player the first predetermined amount based on the amount of the player's second chance wager if the predetermined number of cards in the second chance hand add up to the qualifying value, and paying the player the second predetermined amount based on the amount of the player's optional second chance bonus wager, if any, if the predetermined number of cards in the second chance hand that add up to the qualifying value are the predetermined bonus combination; and l) collecting the player's second chance wager and optional second chance bonus wager, if any, if the predetermined number of cards in the second chance hand do not add up to the qualifying value.