Patent ID: 7147227

Claim:
A method of playing a card game between at least one player and a dealer, the card game having a deck of cards and rules of play, comprising the steps of: receiving at least two bets from a player, the bets including a low hand bet and a high hand bet, the high hand bet being at least equal to the low hand bet; dealing only one first card faced down to each player, which card can be viewed by only a respective player to which it is dealt; dealing only one first card facedown to a dealer dealing at least four additional cards to each player face down and not to be looked at by the player until the low hand bet has been resolved; dealing at least four additional cards to the dealer face down and not to be looked at by the player until the low hand bet has been resolved; playing the low hand including permitting a player to play his first card on either the low hand or only on the high hand, the dealer's first card must be an eight or less to qualify for playing the low hand, however, if a player's first card is a nine or higher on the low hand, the dealer's first card does not need to qualify, the low hand card of each player is then compared with the low hand card of the dealer, if a player's low hand card is lower than the dealer's low hand card, the player wins his low hand bet; after the dealer has completed the low hand with each player, each player's four additional cards and the dealer's four additional cards are turned over and combined with the low hand card and the dealer's low handcard, respectively; the dealer then progresses through each player and compares a best possible poker hand combination of the player's cards with the best possible poker hand combination of the dealer's cards to determine if the player has a better poker hand, the winner wins an amount equal to the high wager, the dealer then progresses through any of the remaining players in a similar fashion.