Patent ID: 7114724

Claim:
A method of playing a casino gambling card game comprising the steps of: a player placing a predetermined initial ante bet to participate in the game; a dealer dealing at least two playing cards from a deck to the player; the player placing a second bet that a next card dealt by the dealer would give the player a poker hand of one of a straight, a flush and straight flush for the total number of cards dealt; the dealer dealing the player said next card; the dealer drawing a like number of cards to itself; ascribing to the cards dealt to the player and the cards drawn by the dealer a baccarat value of “one” for each ace, a value of “zero” for each ten, jack, queen and king, and the point face value of each other card; totalling the baccarat value of all cards received by the player; totalling the baccarat value of all cards drawn by the dealer; comparing the “ones” digit of said total value of cards received by the player with the “ones” digit of said total value of cards drawn by the dealer for itself; and awarding the winning of said ante bet to the player or dealer whose baccarat “ones” digit total comes closer to “nine”.