Patent ID: 7195244

Claim:
A method of playing a pai gow-like game with at least one set of playing tokens, said method comprising the steps of: (a) determining a house way for arrangement of a hand of said playing tokens, said house way leaving no discretion in said arrangement, said house way including arranging said hand into a high hand and a low hand wherein said high hand has a rank that is higher than said low hand; (b) dealing out said playing tokens to a plurality of player hands and a respective banker hand for each of said player hands, a hand pair being comprised of one of said player hands and said respective banker hand, each hand pair being dealt from a separate set of playing tokens; (c) prior to and during said dealing, at least one player wagering on one or more of said player hands; (d) arranging said playing tokens in each of said banker hands into a banker high hand and a banker low hand according to said house way; (e) 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 of said respective banker hand; (g) comparing said player low hand to said banker low hand of said respective banker 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 of said respective banker hand and said player low hand has a higher rank than said banker low hand of said respective banker hand; (i) identifying a winning wager as a wager placed on said winning hand; and (j) paying winnings to said player if said player wagered on said winning hand.