Patent ID: 6866267

Claim:
A method of playing a blackjack-like, wagering card game with a Dealer and at least one player comprising: using at least one deck of standard playing cards having no jokers; dealing a hand of two cards to the Dealer and to each player who has made a wager; dealing one of said cards of the Dealer face up; establishing numerical values for each of said cards in said deck of standard playing cards; assigning values to each said hand by adding up said values of said cards in each said hand; allowing each said player to reach a total of as close to 21 as possible without exceeding 21 with standard blackjack options selected from the group consisting of hit, stand, split a pair, double down, and surrender; allowing the Dealer standard blackjack options selected from the group consisting of hit and stand after play is completed by all the players; and establishing a best hand called a Natural that beats all other hands and pays a bonus when it wins; wherein said Natural is a hand that occurs less frequently than a standard blackjack which is a hand including both an ace of any suit and a card of any suit having a value of ten; wherein any of said hands of the players that exceed 21 do not always lose responsive to said hands of said player being compared to said of said dealer.