Patent ID: 7434807

Claim:
A method for playing a casino card game for at least one player, the game method using playing cards, comprising: the player placing a wager based upon the outcome of a winning hand between a player hand and a dealer hand; a dealer dealing two cards to the player hand and two cards to the dealer hand; determining if the player hand is better than the dealer hand and, if it is not, declaring the dealer hand the winning hand if the player hand belongs to a class 1 through 4 hand or dealing the player hand a third player hand card and then determining if the player hand is better than the dealer hand and, if it is not declaring the dealer hand the winning hand or if it is declaring the player hand the winning hand if the dealer hand belongs to a class 1 through 3 hand or dealing the dealer hand a third dealer hand card and then declaring the better hand between the player hand and the dealer hand the winning hand; and settling the wager based upon the winning hand; wherein the class rankings are based upon identifying whether the cards are in a first, a second or a third group of cards which are then used to form the class rankings and, then for determining rankings within the class rankings, using either a first ranking system for cards in the first group of cards or a second ranking system for cards in the second group of cards; and wherein a hand having a card from the third group of cards will have a ranking of class 1 , 2 or 3 depending upon the second card in the hand and a pairing of any two identical cards in the second group of cards will also have a class 1 ranking but be inferior to a pair of class 3 cards; and wherein a hand having a card from the third group of cards and the second group of cards will have a class 2 ranking while a hand having a card from the third group of cards and the first group of cards will have a class 3 ranking; and wherein two non-identical cards in the second group of cards will have a class 4 ranking, two cards from the first group of cards will have a class five ranking, and one card from the first group of cards combined with one card from the second group of cards will have a class 6 ranking.