Patent ID: 7584968

Claim:
A method of playing a poker card game which comprises: providing a deck of playing cards; designating a dealer who is dealt a hand of cards during play of a game but neither bets nor folds; having said dealer also deal sequential cards as hands to a plurality of players, said players betting prior to at least one sequential deal, said betting by each said player being divided into a house bet placed against the dealer and a pool bet placed against other players; conducting and completing play of said game according to rules of poker; at the end of said game separately determining for each player the outcome of the player's hand against the dealer's hand and thereby determining the outcome of the player's house bet; and for all players completing the game also determining the relative rankings of the hands of said players and thereby determining the distribution of the pool bets accumulated during said game; conducting each deal using a method of biasing to concentrate the values of hands dealt to all players in the game around an initial hand value and decrease the proportion of hands of significantly lower or higher rank than said initial hand value, which would otherwise result from non-biased dealing of said hand, whereby through the play of a single dealt hand a player may win a bet against the dealer and also a betting pool against other players participating in said game.