Patent ID: 7641198

Claim:
A method of playing a game with a dealer and one or more players comprising: providing a set of game pieces; accepting one or more wagers that are settled by comparing a dealer hand to a specific player hand; specifying a pre-determined minimum hand value; dealing a hand of game pieces to the dealer; dealing a hand of game pieces to each of the one or more players; dividing the game pieces in the dealer hand into two or more sub-hands; dividing the game pieces in each of the one or more players hands into two or more sub-hands; specifying a pre-determined sub-hand for comparison to the predetermined minimum hand value; determining a winner of each of the one or more wagers, wherein a first method of determining the winner is used when the predetermined sub-hand has a value greater than or equal to the pre-determined minimum hand value and a second method of determining the winner is used the predetermined subhand has a value less than the predetermined minimum hand value, the first method and the second method being different; and paying the winner of each of the one or more wagers.