Patent ID: 8333383

Claim:
A method of playing a poker-type card game on a video poker machine comprising: causing a computer program to execute the following instructions: dealing two cards to at least one player; dealing a first community card face-up; dealing a first group of fore” community cards face-up and positioned diagonally from two corners of said first community card; dealing a second group of four community cards face-up and positioned diagonally from a remaining two corners of said first community card; and determining a best five-card poker hand for said at least one player, said best five-card poker hand comprising between zero and two cards from said two cards dealt to said at least one player and at least three cards from said first community card and said first group of four community cards and said second group of four community cards; wherein dealing said first community card and said first group of four community cards and said second group of four community cards forms an X-type pattern and wherein dealing said second group of four community cards comprises distributing two community cards from said second group on one corner and distributing a remaining two community cards from said second group on an opposite corner.