Patent ID: 6926280

Claim:
A method for playing a card game by at least one player and a dealer with playing cards, comprising: (a) providing at least one deck of playing cards comprising four suits totaling fifty two cards, with each suit including thirteen cards ranking from ace to ten and through court cards, jack, queen and king, the deck of cards shuffled before playing; (b) assigning a point value to each of the playing cards, with the ace through nine of each suit counted at face value of one through nine points, and the ten through king of each suit being assigned a point value of zero by dropping the tens digit; (c) placing wagers on the outcome of the play by the player in a wagering game; (d) dealing an initial player's hand of two cards all face up to the player and an initial dealer's hand of two cards to the dealer, the point value of the initial dealer's hand not revealed by dealing at least one of the two dealer's cards face down; (e) adding the point values of the initial player's hand, dropping the tens digit of the point value if any, to provide a count value between zero and nine; (f) hitting a third card by the player if desired and adding the point values of the resulting three card player's hand, dropping the tens digit of the sum of the three card player's hand if any, to provide a count value between zero and nine; (g) exposing the initial dealer's hand after the player has acted completely on his hand thereby revealing the point value of the initial dealer's hand; (h) adding the point values of the initial dealer's hand and dropping the tens digit of the point value to provide a count value between zero and nine; (i) completing the dealer's hand by hitting a third playing card when the point value of the initial dealer's hand is zero to four and standing if the point value is five to nine; (j) adding the point value of the dealer's hand, dropping the tens digit if any, to provide a final count value between zero and nine; (k) providing a win for the dealer on a score selected from the group consisting of an all zero tie, an all one tie, an all two tie, any two of the scores and all three scores; and, (l) comparing the final count value of the dealer's hand with the count value of the player's completed hand, a player's completed hand having a count value closer to nine and greater than the dealer's final count value resulting in a win for the player, a player's completed hand having a count value equal to the dealer's final count value resulting into a tie, and a player's completed hand having a count value less than the dealer's final count value resulting in a loss for the player.