Method of playing card games

A method of playing a card game involving one or more persons acting as a dealer and a banker, at least one player, and a conventional card deck comprising at least fifty-two cards, the method comprising the steps of:

• a) establishing a predetermined hand ranking wherein hands having predetermined combination of cards of particular suit and numerical value are ranked;
• b) each player receiving a wild card which is a card in addition to and different from any of the fifty-two cards in the card deck, wherein the player retains the wild card throughout the game for use with each hand of cards dealt to him;
• c) the dealer dealing to each player successive hands of cards as the game progresses, each hand of cards being played in accordance with game rules before the next hand is dealt;
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• d) the player using the wild card in conjunction with each of the hands of cards by assigning the wild card any suit and numerical value to improve the rank of the hand in accordance with predetermined hand rankings.

A method of playing a card game comprising the steps of:

• providing a card deck having a plurality of playing cards, said playing cards having different indicia thereon distinguishing said playing cards;
• establishing a predetermined hand ranking wherein hands having predetermined combination of playing cards of particular indicia are ranked;
• designating at least one playing card indicia as a wild indicia;
• providing each player with at least one playing card having said wild indicia wherein each player retains their playing card having wild indicia throughout the game for use with each hand of cards dealt to said players;
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• dealing to each player successive hands of cards as the game progresses, each hand of cards being played in accordance with game rules before the next hand is dealt;
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• the player using the playing card having said wild indicia in conjunction with each of the hands of cards by assigning the wild card indicia any indicia to improve the rank of the hand in accordance with predetermined hand ranking rules.

A method of playing a card game involving one or more persons acting as a dealer and a banker, and at least one player, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) determining whether to place a first bet that a player's hand will be greater than a first predetermined rank, where all possible hands are ranked according to predetermined rules;
• (b) determining whether to place a second bet that the player's hand will beat the dealer;
• (c) placing at least one of the first and second bets;
• (d) the dealer dealing to the player and the dealer a hand consisting of three cards;
• (e) the at least one player who placed a second bet, deciding either to forfeit the second bet to the banker or to place a third bet;
• (f) the dealer revealing the dealer's hand and determining whether it exceeds a second predetermined rank, and
• if the dealer's hand does not exceed the second predetermined rank, the bank paying each player an amount based on the second bet and returning the third bet to the respective player, or
• if the dealer's hand exceed the second predetermined rank, comparing the dealer's hand in turn with that of each other player who placed the second bet and if the player's hand is higher, the banker paying the respective player an amount based on both the second and third bets, and if the player's hand is lower, the player forfeiting both the second and third bets to the banker;
• (g) the banker paying the fixed payout in accordance with a predetermined scale any player who placed the first bet and whose hand exceeds the first predetermined rank;
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• (h) the banker paying an additional payout independent of the dealer's hand to any player that made said second bet and said third bet, and has a predetermined high ranking hand.