Patent ID: 8752839

Claim:
A method of playing a card game including the steps of: providing an electronic gaming device having a display operable to display representations of cards, an input device operable to receive input from a player, stored instructions defining operating rules, and a processor, the processor operable to interpret the stored instructions to cause the electronic gaming device to: define a set of qualifying card combinations; define a payoff ratio for each of the qualifying card combinations; accept a wager of a first value via the input device; display a dealer set of cards via the display; display a player set of cards via the display; determine if the dealer's set of cards contains a qualifying card combination from the set of qualifying card combinations and if the dealer has more than one qualifying card combination, then determine the dealer's qualifying card combination of greatest value, and if the dealer has only one qualifying card combination, then declare the one qualifying card combination to be the card combination of greatest value; determine if the player's set of cards contains at least one qualifying card combination from the set of qualifying card combinations; if the player's set of cards contains at least one qualifying card combination from the set of qualifying card combinations and the dealer's set of cards contains a qualifying card combination from the set of qualifying card combinations, then determine the player's greatest qualifying combination and determine if the player's greatest qualifying card combination is greater than the dealer's card combination of greatest value; and if the player's greatest qualifying combination is greater than the dealer's card combination of greatest value, then pay the player the amount given by multiplying the first value by the payoff ratio associated with the player's greatest qualifying combination and pay the player an amount given by multiplying the first value and the payoff ratio associated with any second qualifying combination, if present, in the player's hand regardless of the relative value of the second qualifying combination to the dealer's qualifying combination.