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.
Claims13
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 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 said user interface, a player input declaring 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 two of said dealer's cards into a dealer's HI hand and two different of said dealer's cards into a dealer's LO hand and using a final dealer's card as a shared card to be the third card 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 determining a point value for each of said dealer's HI and LO hands based on a rank of each card forming said player's HI hand or LO hand and said dealer's three card HI and three card LO hands wherein non-face cards have rank equal to the card rank and face cards have a rank of zero;
- comparing a point value of a 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.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program directed to a card game, said computer-readable medium causing an electronic gaming device having a processor, a memory, a video display, and a user interface to perform 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 said user interface, a player input declaring 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 two of said dealer's cards into a dealer's HI hand and two different of said dealer's cards into a dealer's LO hand and using a final dealer's card as a shared card to be the third card 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 determining a point value for each of said dealer's HI and LO hands based on a rank of each card forming said player's HI hand or LO hand and said dealer's three card HI and three card LO hands;
- comparing a point value of a 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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