Patent ID: 6857957

Claim:
A method of playing a card game in which a player makes a wager to participate in the card game comprising: a) providing a modified deck of playing cards having a standard fifty-two card deck and at least two Reward Cards; b) providing an initial pay table in which payouts are based on poker hand rankings and the amount of the wager; c) if the player receives one Reward Card during the play of the game, changing the payouts in the pay table by a first amount; and if the player receives two Reward Cards during the play of the game, changing the payouts in the pay table by a second amount; d) shuffling the modified deck of cards and displaying a starting hand of cards to the player; e) selecting none, one or more of the cards as cards to be held; f) discarding the cards that were not selected to be held and replacing each of those cards with another card to make a final hand; g) determining the poker hand ranking of the final hand; and h) paying the player a preestablished amount from the pay table based on the amount of the wager if the resulting cards of the final hand comprise a predetermined poker hand ranking.