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US 2006/0214372 A1Published application
Method of playing a blackjack card game
AssigneePicken Inc.
InventorJohn Picken
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Abstract
A variation on blackjack suitable for tournament play involves at least three players buying a stack of three or more chips for a predetermined buy-in. All of the buy-ins are placed in a pool and the pool is paid out, less a house rake, to the eventual winner of the game. Hands of blackjack are played against a dealer until only one player has remaining chips or until a predetermined time limit expires. The player with the most chips left at the end of the game is the winner of the pool.
Claims20
A method of playing a blackjack game comprising the steps of:
- three or more players buying a stack of three or more chips from a house for a predetermined buy-in, each player buying the same number of chips for the same buy-in, all of the buy-ins forming a pool;
- playing a first hand in which
- (i) each player wagers a number of the player's chips, the number of chips being one or more,
- (ii) a dealer for the house deals two cards to each player and two cards to the dealer, one of the two cards face down and one of the two cards face up for each of the players and the dealer,
- (iii) each player in turn elects to stand or to draw additional cards from the dealer without wagering additional chips,
- (iv) a player card sum is determined for each player, each player whose player card sum is in excess of twenty-one busting,
- (iv) after each player has elected to stand or has busted, the dealer turns up the dealer's face down card, the dealer drawing an additional card when the dealer's cards have a dealer card sum of sixteen or less and standing when the dealer card sum is seventeen or greater, the dealer busting if the dealer card sum exceeds twenty-one,
- (v) the player card sums are compared to the dealer card sum to determine winning players and losing players of the hand, the card sums being determined with cards from 2 to 10 counted at face value, with jacks, queens and kings counted as 10 and with aces counted as 1 or 11,
- the winning players consisting of the players who did not bust with the dealer busting, or, the players whose player card sum does not exceed twenty-one but does exceed the dealer card sum with the dealer not busting,
- the losing players consisting of the players that busted, and, the players whose player card sums are less than the dealer card sum with the dealer not busting, and
- (vi) the house provides each winning player a number of chips equal to the number of chips wagered by that winning player, and the house takes from each losing player the number of chips wagered by that losing player;
- playing one or more other hands until a winner of the game is determined or a predetermined time limit has been reached;
- and,
- paying the pool minus a predetermined rake to the winner of the game.
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A method of playing a blackjack game comprising the steps of:
- three to seven players buying a stack of three chips from a house for a predetermined buy-in, each player buying the same number of chips for the same buy-in, all of the buy-ins forming a pool;
- playing a first hand in which
- (i) each player wagers one of the player's chips,
- (ii) a dealer for the house deals two cards to each player and two cards to the dealer, one of the two cards face down and one of the two cards face up for each of the players and the dealer,
- (iii) each player in turn elects to stand or to draw additional cards from the dealer without wagering additional chips,
- (iv) a player card sum is determined for each player, each player whose player card sum is in excess of twenty-one busting,
- (iv) after each player has elected to stand or has busted, the dealer turns up the dealer's face down card, the dealer drawing an additional card when the dealer's cards have a dealer card sum of sixteen or less and standing when the dealer card sum is seventeen or greater, the dealer busting if the dealer card sum exceeds twenty-one,
- (v) the player card sums are compared to the dealer card sum to determine winning players and losing players of the hand, the card sums being determined with cards from 2 to 10 counted at face value, with jacks, queens and kings counted as 10 and with aces counted as 1 or 11,
- the winning players consisting of the players who did not bust with the dealer busting, or, the players whose player card sum does not exceed twenty-one but does exceed the dealer card sum with the dealer not busting,
- the losing players consisting of the players that busted, and, the players whose player card sums are less than the dealer card sum with the dealer not busting, and
- (vi) the house provides each winning player a number of chips equal to the number of chips wagered by that winning player, and the house takes from each losing player the number of chips wagered by that losing player;
- playing one or more other hands in which the players may wager any number of their remaining chips until a winner of the game is determined or a predetermined time limit of 5 to 20 minutes has been reached;
- and,
- paying the pool, minus a house rake equal to one buy-in, to the winner of the game.
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