Patent ID: 8561992

Claim:
A method of playing a table card game comprising the steps of: (a) providing the following components of a table card game: a game table, said game table including two or more player display areas, each of said player display areas associated with two or more players, a main pot location, a bonus pot location, a raise pot location, a dealer card deck location, and a discard pile location; a plurality of cards; (b) receiving an initial main pot wager in each of said player display areas from each of said players; (c) receiving an initial bonus pot wager in each of said player display areas from each of said players; (d) moving said initial main pot wager from each of said player display areas to said main pot location; (e) moving said initial bonus pot wager from each of said player display areas to said bonus pot location; (f) selecting a first player; (g) dealing a predetermined quantity of said plurality of cards to each of said player display areas in a face down manner; (h) placing undealt ones of said plurality of cards in said dealer card deck location; (i) allowing said players to view said predetermined quantity of said plurality of cards located in a respective one of said player display areas; (j) initiating a wagering round by allowing said first player to perform a main pot raise by placing said main pot raise in said raise pot location; (k) allowing each of said players to sequentially perform a subsequent main pot raise by placing said subsequent main pot raise in said raise pot location; (l) allowing said first player to become a current player and initiate a flow by placing an initial pattern of one or more of said plurality of cards in said player display area of said first player; (m) allowing each of said players to sequentially become said current player; (n) allowing said current player to pass or place an allowed higher ranking pattern in said player display area of said current player; (o) continuing said flow until all of said players pass or one of said players holds zero of said plurality of cards; (p) repeating steps (f) through (o) until one of said players holds zero of said plurality of cards; and (q) declaring said one of said players holding zero of said plurality of cards as a winner of said table card game.