Patent ID: 7364161

Claim:
A method of playing a card game among a plurality of Players and a Banker, each Player wagering against the Banker, comprising the steps of: (a) providing and shuffling at least one standard poker deck of 52 cards plus at least one Joker, wherein the Joker may be used as an Ace or to complete a Straight or Flush; (b) placing either a Poker Bet wager or Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager, or both; (c) placing an optional Bonus Bet wager; (d) dealing cards, seven cards dealt either at one time or proportionally, into enough dealt hands of seven cards to provide a dealt hand for each Player and for the Banker; (e) determining which dealt hand is assigned to each Player and which dealt hand is assigned to the Banker; (f) from their own seven-card dealt hand, each Player and the Banker selecting and keeping their own best 5-card poker hand and discarding two other cards; (g) determining whether each Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better Bet wager wins or loses, if any; (h) settling each Player's Pair Of Aces Or Better wager against the Banker; (i) determining whether each Player's Poker Bet wager wins, loses or ties, if any; wherein each Player's best 5-card poker hand is compared to the Banker's best 5-card poker hand according to the rankings wherein hands are ranked in descending order as follows: 5 Aces, Royal Flush, Straight Flush, 4 of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, 3 of a Kind, Two Pair, One Pair and High Card; wherein Ace is the highest High Card, following by King, Queen, Jack, Ten, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2; wherein A2345 is the second highest Straight and that it is suited, A2345 is the second highest Straight Flush; (j) settling each Player's Poker Bet wager against the Banker; (k) determining whether each Player's Bonus Bet wager wins, loses, or ties, if any; and (l) settling each Player's Bonus Bet wager against the Banker.