Patent ID: 7677573

Claim:
A method of playing a house-banked casino card game, the method comprising: (a) receiving an Ante wager from a player; (b) dealing at least one player card to the player and at least one dealer card to a dealer using a table or at least one apparatus; (c) providing the player with an option to place an additional competition wager and then dealing at least one community card; (d) repeating step (c) until at least two additional competition wager options have been provided to the player and a predetermined number of community cards have been dealt, wherein a player hand includes cards selected from the at least one player card and at least one of the predetermined number of community cards, and wherein the dealer hand includes cards selected from the at least one dealer card and at least one of the predetermined number of community cards; and (e) resolving the Ante wager and all of the additional competition wagers according to a poker rank of the player hand versus a poker rank of the dealer hand, wherein the number of the additional competition wagers in play and at risk is determined according to the poker rank of the dealer hand such that if the dealer hand poker rank is less than one pair, only the Ante wager is in play and at risk, and if the dealer hand poker rank is one pair or better, the Ante wager and all of the additional competition wagers are in play and at risk, and wherein if the poker rank of the player hand exceeds the poker rank of the dealer hand, the Ante wager and all of the additional competition wagers are paid 1 to 1, wherein the player hand consists of five cards selected from the at least one player card and the predetermined number of community cards, and wherein the dealer hand consists of five cards selected from the at least one dealer card and the predetermined number of community cards, wherein with the Ante wager and the subsequent wagers, the player is provided with options to place five wagers, and wherein the number of the five wagers in play is determined according to the dealer hand poker rank as: DEALER HAND RANK PLAYS AGAINST straight or better five wagers three of a kind four wagers two pair three wagers one pair two wagers all hands one wager.