Patent ID: 7624987

Claim:
A method of playing a card game, the method comprising: providing a device that performs the following steps: randomly assigning a deviation multiplier to players in the card game; randomly selecting an initial single hand rank, the initial single hand rank is utilized, along with the deviation multiplier, to determine a range of possible hand rankings for each of the players in the card game, each player is assigned a hand rank within the range of possible hand rankings; randomly selecting a base number from the range of possible hand rankings; assigning a hand rank to the each of the players in the game, where the hand rank is determined using the base number; and using the device to: (a) deal a plurality of cards to the players face down; (b) display a card for each of the players, the each of the players choosing to either bet or fold the hand; (c) display another card for each of the players, the each of the players choosing to either bet or fold the hand; (d) repeat step (c) for each additional player in the game; and (e) determine the highest ranking hand using all the displayed cards of the players who have not folded.