Patent ID: 7032902

Claim:
A method for playing a casino card game for at least one player, the game method using at least one deck of fifty-two cards, comprising: the player placing a base wager on either a first hand or a second hand; the player placing at least one of a push wager or a tie wager; a dealer dealing three cards to a first hand and three cards to a second hand; examining the first hand and the second hand; if either hand has a predetermined three-card combination, comparing the first hand to the second hand and declaring the winning hand to be the hand having the higher ranking three-card combination; if neither hand has the predetermined three-card combination, arranging each hand into a two-card component hand and a single-card component hand; comparing the first two-card hand to the second two-card hand and the first single-card hand to the second single-card hand; declaring a tie if the three cards of the first hand are equal in rank to the three cards of the second hand, and rewarding the player if the player placed a tie wager; declaring a push if one component hand of the first hand outranks the corresponding component hand of the second hand and the remaining component hand of the second hand outranks the corresponding component hand of the first hand, and rewarding the player if the player placed a push wager; and otherwise, declaring the winning hand to be the hand having a component hand outranking the corresponding component hand of the other hand and a remaining component hand outranking or tying the corresponding hand of the other hand, and rewarding the player if the player placed said base wager on the winning hand or collecting the player's base wager if the player placed said base wager on the losing hand.