Patent ID: 6840517

Claim:
A method of playing a card game comprising: a player making at least an ante to enter the playing card game; dealing an initial hand of X cards to at least one player and a hand of X cards to a dealer; the player deciding if the player wants to continue play of the game, the decision exercised by making a play wager to continue the game and otherwise folding the player's hand and losing the ante and ending a round of play of the game for that player; if a play wager is made by the player, dealing at least one more card to the player; the player forming a best hand of X cards from the X+cards; comparing the best hand of the player against a best hand for the dealer with the dealer's X cards; and resolving the ante and play wager based upon ranking rules of the card game, wherein X is a single integer selected from the group consisting an integer of 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 or 7 .