Patent ID: 7815501

Claim:
A device for conducting a card game for a player comprising: a data processor; a video display in communication with said data processor; a wager handling device in communication with said data processor; an input device in communication with said data processor; a data storage adapted to store data representing playing cards, data representing a pay table of winning hands and corresponding awards, data representing a card template containing a plurality of card positions around the perimeter of a closed geometric shape wherein said card positions in said card template are each assigned to at least one of two or more game hands with at least one card position shared between two of said game hands, and instructions executable by said data processor to conduct a game comprising: receiving a wager from said player at said wager handling device; in response to receiving said wager, randomly selecting playing cards from said playing card data stored at said data storage; arranging said randomly selected playing cards in the card positions of said card template to form two or more game hands; receiving from said player through said input device an option to relocate said playing cards in said card positions of said card template to change the playing cards assigned to said game hands and, in response to said player opting to relocate said playing cards, said data processor changing the location of said playing cards in said card template to thereby change the playing cards assigned to said game hands; forming a final hand for each game hand of said card template; comparing said final hands to said pay table; and issuing the corresponding award if any of said final hands form a winning hand.