Patent ID: 7222856

Claim:
A method of playing a modified draw poker game using a deck of cards wherein a player has a chance to hold cards and to reject and replace other cards during the course of game play, the method comprising the steps of: (a) dealing an initial hand of cards to a player and displaying them in a line having two ends; (b) identifying the face value and/or suit of one(s) of the cards in the deck of cards and displaying the identified face value and/or suit apart from and at the same time that the initial hand of cards is dealt in step (a); (c) drawing replacement cards for cards rejected by the player and not to be held from the initial hand of cards; (d) granting a first option to the player to replace additional cards in their hand of cards after drawing replacement cards in step (c) for each card in their hand of cards having the face value and/or suit identified in step (b); (e) replacing a card in the player's hand of cards when the player exercises a first option granted in step (d), the card to be replaced being from one of the two ends of the line of cards as selected by the player; and (f) determining if the player's hand of cards is a winning hand of cards.