Patent ID: 7581730

Claim:
A method of playing a card game comprising: a) providing a physical deck of playing cards comprising at least a standard fifty-two card deck with at least one additional bonus hand card; b) displaying an initial first hand of at least five cards all face up; c) if the initial first hand contains a bonus hand card, displaying an initial second hand having the same four cards face up other than the bonus hand card as the initial first hand plus one additional face down card; d) selecting none, one or more of the face up cards from the initial first hand as cards to be held, discarding the unselected cards and the bonus hand card and displaying replacement cards for the discarded cards resulting in a final first hand; e) if the initial second hand has been displayed, selecting none, one or more of the face up cards from the second hand as cards to be held, discarding the unselected cards and the additional face down card and displaying face up replacement cards for the discarded cards resulting in a final second hand; f) determining the poker hand ranking of the resulting cards of the final first hand and the final second hand.