Patent ID: 7334794

Claim:
A method of playing a player-banked poker card game comprising: each player placing at least one ante wager to participate in the game; at least one player receiving a first number of cards as a partial player hand and a dealer receiving a second number of unexposed cards as a partial banker hand, the second number of cards having at least one card more then the first number of cards received by the player, the first number of cards and the second number of cards forming partial player hands and a partial banker hand, respectively; providing a set of community cards that are used by the banker and the at least one player to complete the partial banker hand and partial player hands; showing one of the banker's cards to provide a rank of a shown banker card; compelling the dealer to discard the shown banker's card if the rank of the shown banker's card is within a first range of values and compelling the dealer to discard an unexposed banker's card if the shown banker's card is within a second range of values that is different from the first range of values to determine a rank of the banker's band; resolving the at least one ante wager according to rules of the poker game, with the dealer and the at least one player forming a multiple-card banker poker hand and multiple-card player poker hands from a) the community cards and banker's cards and b) the community cards and the at least one player's cards, respectively.