Patent ID: 7455297

Claim:
A method of playing a game of chance involving up to six players and a dealer, wherein each player plays against the dealer, and using a deck of cards including at least the 52 cards of a standard deck, said method comprising: placing a wager by each of the six players; dealing, by the dealer, a total of seven cards to the dealer and a total of seven cards to each of the six players; arranging of the cards, by the dealer and each player, into a low hand of one card, a medium hand of two cards and a high hand of four cards so that, during play, poker hands of four of a kind and two pair can be formed in forming the four card high hand depending on the cards that are dealt, wherein the medium hand must be higher in rank than the low hand and the high hand must be higher in rank than the medium hand, individually comparing each of the low, medium and high ranks of each player with the low, medium and high hands of the dealer; determining a winner between each player and the dealer when at least two out of the three hands of one is of higher rank than the corresponding hands of the other, and taking the wager of the player by the dealer when the dealer is determined to be the winner, and paying, by the dealer, the amount of the wager by a player to a player determined to be the winner.