Patent ID: 7351139

Claim:
A method for at least one player to play a card game comprising: receiving a card game ante from each of the at least one player, the card game ante indicating participation in the card game, wherein the card game comprises a Poker game and an auxiliary play, the Poker game played according to the standard rules of Poker and having at least five cards per hand, wherein a card game payout corresponding to each hand is determined regardless of a dealer hand; receiving an auxiliary play ante from each of the at least one player, the auxiliary play ante indicating participation in the auxiliary play, wherein the auxiliary play is based on the hand of the respective player in the Poker game, wherein the auxiliary play comprises a bonus prize corresponding to each hand having four royal cards out of the at least five cards, wherein the four royal cards comprise any four of an ace, a king, a queen, a jack, and a ten, and wherein the four royal cards comprise cards of the same suit; dealing at least one card from at least one deck of cards to each remaining one of the at least one player in each of a plurality of rounds in accordance with the card game until the at least one player receives the at least five cards; receiving a selection from each remaining one of the at least one player whether to wager in at least a first one of the plurality of rounds; for each of the at least one player selecting to wager in the first one of the plurality of rounds, taking a first wager; for each of the at least one player selecting not to wager in the first one of the plurality of rounds: taking the card game ante; taking the auxiliary play ante; and removing the respective player from the card game and the auxiliary game; receiving a selection from each remaining one of the at least one player whether to wager in at least a second one of the plurality of rounds, wherein the second one of the plurality of rounds comes after the first one of the plurality of rounds; for each of the at least one player selecting to wager in the second one of the plurality of rounds, taking a second wager; for each of the at least one player, selecting not to wager in the second one of the plurality of rounds: taking the card game ante; taking the auxiliary play ante; taking the first wager; and removing the respective player from the card game and the auxiliary game; determining whether each of the at least one player remaining in the card game through the plurality of rounds, receiving the at least five cards, and participating in the auxiliary play was dealt the four royal cards out of the at least five cards; and for each one of the at least one player remaining in the card game through the plurality of rounds, receiving the at least five cards, and participating in the auxiliary play having the four royal cards out of the at least five cards, awarding the bonus prize.