Patent ID: 6964418

Claim:
A method of playing a card game comprising: a) dealing a first hand of at least four cards all face up; b) selecting none, one or more of the face up cards from the first hand as cards to be held; c) duplicating the cards selected to be held from the first hand into a second hand; d) duplicating the cards selected to be held from the first hand into a third hand; e) discarding from the first hand at least one card, the card being a card not selected to be held, and replacing any discarded card with a face up card and completing the first hand by displaying a fifth card face up; f) completing the second hand to have at least five cards by dealing additional face up cards; g) completing the third hand to have at least five cards by dealing additional face up cards; and h) determining the poker hand ranking of the resulting cards of the first hand, the second hand and the third hand.