Patent ID: 7510193

Claim:
A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of: a) requiring each player to place an ante wager to participate in a wagering game played against a house/bank; b) requiring each player to place an additional pot wager into a pot/pool; the pot constituting a communal wager or pool wherein the players compete not against the bank but against one another with the winner of the pot bets being the player holding the highest poker hand; c) dealing a predetermined number of cards to each player; d) dealing a predetermined number of communal cards; e) requiring each player to decide whether to place a wager to participate in the wagering game played against the house/bank; f) a comparison being made between each player's card hand, such hand partly composed of individually dealt cards in conjunction with the communal cards, using poker rank both as the criterion for determining winning hands against the house/bank and for determining the winning hand regarding the pot bets; g) for each player who placed a wager, determining whether each such player has a winning hand as a condition to paying each winning player against the house on the player's ante wager using an ante pay scale and on the player's wager using a pay scale; and h) awarding all pot wagers to the player holding the highest poker ranked hand.