Patent ID: 7048274

Claim:
A method of operating a casino card game, said game being played with one or more decks of cards, a dealer and players, including the steps of: (a) providing a playing surface, said surface including first marked areas for placing wagers on one or more aspects of the face value of a single card, and second marked areas for placing wagers on one or more aspects of the face values of a plurality of successively dealt single cards, wherein said one or more aspects of the face values of a plurality of successively dealt cards include one or more of the following poker hands formed from five successively dealt cards: a flush; a full house; four of a kind; five of a kind; a straight flush; and a royal flush; (b) permitting the players to place wagers in said first and second marked areas; (c) the dealer dealing a single card; (d) the dealer collecting and paying the wagers placed in the first marked areas according to the face value of said card; (e) permitting players to place new wagers in said first marked areas; and (f) repeating steps (c) to (e) the dealer collecting and paying the wagers placed in the second marked areas according to the face values of the successively dealt single cards in step (c).