Casino system and method for conducting a card game including optional match and poker bonus features
OwnerJames E. Lemanski, Daryl P. Jendraszkiewiczinventors
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Abstract
A system and method for conducting a card game including a player v. dealer arrangement involving a comparison of HI and LO hand values. Players declare a three-card hand as either HI or LO and a dealer forms three-card LO and HI hands using five cards with a shared card being used in both the LO and HI hand. Aces have a value of 1 point when used in a LO hand and 11 when used in a HI hand, face cards have a value of 0 points and cards 2 through 10 have values matching their rank. Match and poker bonus features may also be incorporated.
Claims6
An electronically implemented method of conducting a card game on an electronic gaming device comprising:
- providing a processor, a memory, a video display and a user interface, said memory storing executable instructions, said executable instructions relating to the operation of said electronic gaming device and executable by said processor to implement the steps of:
- accepting mandatory game wagers via a currency or ticket reader or credit meter;
- from a simulated deck of playing cards, displaying on said video display three random player's cards forming a player hand;
- accepting, via a user interface, a player input commensurate with a declaration of said player's hand as a player HI hand or player LO hand;
- from said simulated deck of playing cards, displaying on said video display five random dealer's cards;
- arranging via said processor, two of said dealer's cards into a dealer's HI hand and two different dealer's cards into a dealer's LO hand and identifying a final dealer's card as a shared card included in both said dealer's HI hand and said dealer's LO hand thereby forming a dealer's three card HI hand and a dealer's three card LO hand;
- determining a point value of said player's three cards and declaring the player's three cards as either a declared HI or LO hand and determining a point value for each of said dealer's three card HI and three card LO hands based on a rank of each card forming said player's HI or LO hand and said dealer's HI and LO hands;
- comparing a point value of said player's declared LO hand with a point value of said dealer's LO hand or a point value of said player's declared HI hand with a point value of said dealer's HI hand;
- providing a payout relative to said mandatory game wagers responsive to said player's declared HI hand having a point value exceeding a point value of said dealer's HI hand or said player's declared LO hand having a point value below a point value of said dealer's LO hand;
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- collecting said mandatory game wagers responsive to said player's declared HI hand having a point value below a point value of said dealer's HI hand or said player's declared LO hand having a point value above a point value of said dealer's LO hand.
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