Patent ID: 8764014

Claim:
A method of dealing hands in a Twenty-One game having a single dealer and multiple players and using at least one standard deck of fifty-two cards, comprising a) dealing two initial dealer cards comprising a dealer's hand from the standard deck of fifty-two cards before any cards are dealt to any of the players; b) creating a fifty card depleted deck comprising the fifty-two card standard deck less the two cards comprising the dealer's hand; c) dealing two cards comprising a player hand for each player from the fifty card depleted deck, a separate fifty card depleted deck being used for each player; d) each player playing out his player hand according to the conventional manner of play of Twenty-One; e) using the fifty card depleted deck, playing out the dealer hand according to the conventional manner of play of Twenty-One, the dealer hand also using a separate fifty card depleted deck; and f) determining winning and losing hands according to the conventional manner of play of Twenty-One.