Patent ID: 7329178

Claim:
A method of playing a blackjack card game, comprising the steps of: accepting a bet from a player, before any cards are dealt; accepting an optional discard fee, if the player chooses to pay the optional discard fee, before any cards are dealt; dealing two cards to the player and two cards to the dealer; allowing the player to discard one of his two cards, if the player has paid the optional discard fee and chooses to discard the card; dealing a replacement card to the player, if the player has discarded a card, with the card originally dealt and the replacement card counting as the player's starting hand, and counting as a blackjack if it has a value of twenty-one; completing the blackjack game pursuant to preestablished rules of the blackjack game; and if the player wins, paying off the player pursuant to preestablished payouts; wherein the player who has paid the optional discard fee may discard one card only if the value of the first two cards that the player is dealt is less than seventeen and neither card is an ace; and unless the dealer's starting two-card hand is a blackjack and the player has at least one card selected from the group consisting of aces and cards with a value of ten, in which case the player may discard one card and draw one card only, and if the player's hand then has a value of twenty-one, it is a super-blackjack that wins against the dealer's blackjack.