Randall A Ward

US Patent:

6695312, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

Sep 30, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/261059

Inventors:

Randall Ward - South Shore KY 41175

International Classification:

A63F 100

US Classification:

273292, 273236, 273274, 273309

Abstract:

The present invention provides a wagering card game played with a standard fifty-two card deck of cards in which a dealer deals two cards to each of the players. The player must in turn choose whether to try to get one hit card that is numerically between the values of the two dealt cards or to get two hit cards that are above and below, respectively, the values of the two dealt cards. In either case, if the dealt cards constitute a pair, the player automatically loses. As dealt cards, aces are automatic loss cards and also are as hit cards unless assurance, a fee that allows an ace dealt as a hit card to be replaced by another hit card or to be put in play, depending on which option of the game the player has chosen to play, has been purchased. Under the rules of the game of the present invention, the poker hands consisting of a straight, a flush, or a straight flush are also winning hands, but hands consisting of two or three of a kind are losing hands, with one exception made in one option of the game with an assurance purchase. The players do not compete against the house and more than one hand can win each round.