Patent ID: 7699318

Claim:
A method of wagering in a game played by a Dealer and at least one Player comprising: providing a set of gaming tokens; affording each Player an opportunity to make a primary wager that a hand of tokens dealt to that Player will beat a hand of tokens dealt to the Dealer in accordance with first predetermined payoff criteria including conditions for one hand beating another hand and how much winning wagers are paid; affording the Dealer and each Player an opportunity to a separate secondary wager that the hand of tokens dealt to the Dealer will beat the hand of tokens dealt to a particular Player in accordance with second predetermined payoff criteria including conditions for one hand beating another hand and how much winning wagers are paid, at least one of the second criteria being different from the first criteria; dealing tokens to the Dealer and to each Player; determining for each primary wager whether it was won using the first pre-determined criteria; paying each Player who won the primary wager and collecting the wager of each player who lost the primary wager; determining for each secondary wager that it is won when the Dealer's hand beats hand of the particular Player that was the subject of that secondary wager, according to the second pre-determined criteria, and; paying each Player who won the secondary wager and collecting the wager of each player who lost the secondary wager.