Patent ID: 7506873

Claim:
A method for a player to play a game of draw poker that utilizes a matrix of horizontally and vertically oriented positions in which cards are dealt during play of the draw poker game, the matrix having a plurality of columns and plural pay lines pass through one card in each column of the matrix, the method comprising the steps of: (a) initially randomly dealing cards face up in less than all the positions of one row of positions through the matrix; (b) letting the player select any of the cards dealt in step (a) to be held; (c) replacing the card(s) that are not held in step (b); (d) dealing face up cards in the positions of the one row of positions through the matrix that did not have a card dealt therein in step (a) to complete a hand of cards in that row; (e) dealing a face up card into matrix positions both above and below the positions of the one row of positions through the matrix into which cards are dealt in step (d); and (d) determining which pay lines through the matrix have winning combinations of cards along them.