Patent ID: 7618043

Claim:
A method of playing a baccarat card game variation comprising: providing at least one 52-card deck of playing cards; placing a wager on one of a player bet line and a banker bet line by at least one player, wherein the wager includes a player bet line wager and a banker bet line wager; dealing a pair of cards to each of a banker hand and a community hand, wherein the banker hand includes a first banker face-up card and a banker face-down card, and wherein the community hand includes a first community face-up card and a second community face-up card; if a community hand sum is less than 4, dealing a community hit card to the community hand; if the community hand sum is greater than 6, standing on the community hand; if the at least one player has placed a wager on the player bet line, and if the community hand sum is greater than 3 and less than 7, optionally dealing a community hit card to the community hand, wherein each of the at least one players independently elects to accept the community hit card, wherein a community hit sum is a sum of the community hit card and the community hand sum; revealing the banker face-down card of the banker hand; if a banker hand sum is less than 6, dealing a second banker face-up card to the banker hand, else standing on the banker hand; and resolving the wager.