Poker game
OwnerPatrick LaRoseinventor
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Abstract
A shared-card poker game provides each player with two faced-down personal cards and one-faced up personal card. Rounds of betting are conducted, and shared community cards are dealt faced-up in front of the players. To determine the winner of a hand, each player creates the best 5-card poker hand using three of the available community cards and two of his personal cards. Then the 5-card hands are compared, and the 5-card hand of highest rank is declared the winner.
Claims20
A game of poker, comprising:
- a first player;
- a second player;
- a collection of bets and/or antes;
- a first set of playing cards dealt to the first player, wherein at least one playing card of the first set of playing cards is dealt faced down and at least one playing card of the first set of playing cards is dealt faced up;
- a second set of playing cards dealt to the second player, wherein at least one playing card of the second set of playing cards is dealt faced down and at least one playing card of the second set of playing cards is dealt faced up;
- a plurality of community playing cards placed face up;
- and
- a comparison of a first five-card poker hand, corresponding to the first player, to a second five-card poker hand, corresponding to the second player,
- wherein the first poker hand is a combination of playing cards contained in the first set of playing cards and playing cards contained in the plurality of community playing cards, and
- wherein the second poker hand is a combination of playing cards contained in the second set of playing cards and playing cards contained in the plurality of community playing cards.
A method of playing a game of poker, comprising the steps of dealing a first set of playing cards to a first player, wherein at least one playing card of the first set of playing cards is dealt faced down and at least one playing card of the first set of playing cards is dealt faced up;
- dealing a second set of playing cards to a second player, wherein at least one playing card of the second set of playing cards is dealt faced down and at least one playing card of the second set of playing cards is dealt faced up;
- collecting bets and/or antes;
- dealing a plurality of community playing cards placed face up;
- and
- comparing a first five-card poker hand, corresponding to the first player, to a second five-card poker hand, corresponding to the second player,
- wherein the first poker hand is a combination of playing cards contained in the first set of playing cards and playing cards contained in the plurality of community playing cards, and
- wherein the second poker hand is a combination of playing cards contained in the second set of playing cards and playing cards contained in the plurality of community playing cards.
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