Patent ID: 7140614

Claim:
A method of playing a poker card game comprising at least one player making at least one ante wager in the poker game: a) at least one player receiving a first number of cards and a dealer receiving a second number of cards that is at least one card more then the number of cards received by the player; b) providing a set of community cards that can be used by the dealer and the player; c) exposing a rank of one of the dealer's cards to provide an exposed dealer card and leaving other dealer's cards unexposed; d) compelling the dealer to discard the exposed dealer's card if the rank of the exposed dealer's card is within a first range of values and compelling the dealer to discard an unexposed dealer's card if the exposed dealer's card is within a second range of values to determine the dealer's hand; and e) resolving the at least one ante wager according to rules of the poker game, with the dealer and the at least one player forming multiple-card poker hands from i) the community cards and dealer's cards and ii) the community cards and the at least one player's cards.