Patent ID: 8262450

Claim:
A method of playing a modified pai gow poker game on a computerized platform, the computerized platform comprising a display operatively associated with a processor, a data input interface that actuates visual representations on the display, and a computer readable medium encoded with instructions and executed by the processor to perform the steps of: dealing on the display at least one card hand selected from the group of card hands consisting of five cards, six cards, seven cards and eight cards from a standard poker card deck of playing cards including a wild card to each of the one or more players and a dealer during the round of play; evaluating a dealer's card hand to determine whether said dealer's card hand comprises a dealer's pai gow hand having no poker elements other than the value of individual singleton cards; identifying a highest value card of said dealer's pai gow hand; providing a push condition having a preselected card value comprising a single card selected from the group of single cards consisting of ace, king, queen, jack, ten and nine; comparing the highest value card of the dealer's card hand with the push condition to determine if the highest value card of the dealer's card hand is of the same value as the preselected card value; and settling said round of play as a tie if the push condition is satisfied.