Patent ID: 7410171

Claim:
A method of playing a card game, comprising: providing a pair of players for a game; placing an initial wager by each player on the outcome of the game; making a challenge device available to at least one of the pair of players to increase an amount being waged on the outcome of the game, the challenge device being an object; initiating a round of play, each round of play comprising a plurality of hands, each hand comprising: dealing a number of cards to each player; placing an initial bet on the outcome of the hand by a first one of the players; presenting, by one of the players to the other of the players, the challenge device to increase the initial wager on the outcome of the game; accepting or refusing the challenge device by the first player; if the challenge device is refused by the player, forfeiting the initial wager and any subsequent wagers by the refusing player and ending the game; and if the challenge device is accepted by the first player, increasing the wager of both the first and second players by the appropriate amount and continuing the game until a winner of the game is determined; and wherein if the challenge device is accepted, the wager of both the first player and the second player on the outcome of the game is increased by a predetermined multiple of the wager.