Patent ID: 7481433

Claim:
A method of playing a poker style game between a dealer and one or more players, comprising: providing a deck of cards; providing a winning schedule for predetermined combinations of cards; dealing cards from the deck of cards to each player until at least three cards have been dealt to each player; dealing one or more community card(s) to be used by each player as part of their respective poker hands; allowing each player to determine whether the cards dealt to that player win by that player's dealt cards being one of the predetermined combination of cards by all being equally ranked cards or by being two-pair of equally ranked cards and giving each player a choice of either stopping play at that time and be paid if the initial cards dealt to the player form a winning predetermined combination, or allowing each player that received a winning predetermined combination to continue play and not be paid for the initial cards having a winning predetermined combination; allowing each remaining player that decided to continue to play to split the cards dealt to that player into two subsets, a first subset of cards having a number of cards to be part of a large poker hand, and a second subset of cards having a number of cards less than the first subset of cards to be part of a small poker hand; and allowing each remaining player that decided to continue play to form the large poker hand using the number of cards that form the part of the large poker hand and using the one or more community cards and to form the small poker hand using the number of cards that form the part of the small poker hand and using the one or more community cards; determining any winnings by the players according to the winning schedule for predetermined combinations of cards.