Draw vs. stud 3-card casino poker game

A gaming system comprising:

• a display device;
• an input device;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to:
• (a) receive a wager from a player;
• (b) display a deal of three cards face up from a deck of cards for a player's hand after receiving the wager from the player;
• (c) display a deal of two cards face up from the remaining cards of the deck of cards for a dealer's hand;
• (d) after the three cards are dealt for the player's hand and the two cards are dealt for the dealer's hand, provide the player with each of the options of surrendering, staying, placing a doubling down bet, and placing a draw bet;
• (e) enable the player to make an input to select any one of each of the options of surrendering, staying, placing the doubling down bet, and placing the draw bet;
• (f) when the player selected surrendering, provide the player a portion of the received wager;
• and
• (g) when the player did not select surrendering and after the player selected one of the options of staying, placing the doubling down bet, and placing the draw bet:
• (i) when the player selected placing the draw bet, display a deal of one card face up from the remaining cards in the deck of cards for the player's hand without requiring the player to discard any of the cards in the player's hand;
• (ii) display a deal of three cards face up for the dealer's hand from the remaining cards of the deck of cards;
• (iii) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the dealer's hand based on predetermined poker rankings;
• (iv) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings and when the player selected placing the draw bet, the determination of the best three card hand is made from all four of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings;
• (v) compare the dealer's best three card hand to the player's best three card hand, said comparison being made regardless of a rank of the dealer's best three card hand;
• (vi) when the player's best three card hand is a winner according to said predetermined poker rankings, and the player selected staying, provide the player an award from a plurality of awards based on a predetermined paytable;
• (vii) when the player's best three card hand is the winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the doubling down bet, provide the player one of the awards based on the predetermined paytable;
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• (viii) when the player's best three card hand is the winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the draw bet, provide the player a draw bet award, said draw bet award independent of any rank of said player's best three card hand in the predetermined paytable.

A gaming system comprising:

• a display device;
• an input device;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to:
• (a) receive a wager from a player;
• (b) display a deal of three cards face up from a deck of cards for a player's hand after receiving the wager from the player;
• (c) display a deal of two cards face up from the remaining cards of the deck of cards for a dealer's hand;
• (d) after the three cards are dealt for the player's hand and the two cards are dealt for the dealer's hand, provide the player with each of the options of folding, placing a doubling down bet, and placing a draw bet;
• (e) enable the player to make an input to select any one of each of the options of folding, placing the doubling down bet, and placing the draw bet;
• and
• (f) after the player selected one of the options of placing the doubling down bet and placing the draw bet, and when the player did not select folding:
• (i) when the player selected placing the draw bet, display a deal of one card face up from the remaining cards in the deck of cards for the player's hand without requiring the player to first discard one of the cards in the player's hand;
• (ii) display a deal of three cards face up for the dealer's hand from the remaining cards of the deck of cards;
• (iii) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the dealer's hand based on predetermined poker rankings;
• (iv) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings and when the player selected placing the draw bet, the determination of the best three card hand is made from all four of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings;
• (v) compare the dealer's best three card hand to the player's best three card hand, said comparison being made regardless of a rank of the dealer's best three card hand;
• (vi) when the player's best three card hand is a winner according to said predetermined poker rankings, and the player selected placing the doubling down bet, provide the player an award based on a predetermined paytable;
• and
• (vii) when the player's best three card hand is the winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the draw bet, provide the player a draw bet award, said draw bet award independent of any rank of said player's best three card hand in the predetermined paytable.

A gaming system comprising:

• a display device;
• an input device;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to:
• (a) receive a wager from a player;
• (b) display a deal of three cards face up from a deck of cards for a player's hand after receiving the wager from the player;
• (c) display a deal of two cards face up from the remaining cards of the deck of cards for a dealer's hand;
• (d) after the three cards are dealt for the player's hand and the two cards are dealt for the dealer's hand, provide the player with each of the options of folding or placing a play bet;
• (e) enable the player to make an input to select any one of each of the options of folding or placing the play bet;
• and
• (f) when the player selected placing the play bet:
• (i) provide the player with each of the options of placing a doubling down bet or placing a draw bet;
• (ii) enable the player to make an input to select any one of each of the options of placing the doubling down bet or placing the draw bet;
• (iii) when the player selected placing the draw bet, display a deal of one card face up from the remaining cards in the deck of cards for the player's hand without requiring the player to discard any of the cards in the player's hand;
• (iv) display a deal of three cards face up for the dealer's hand from the remaining cards of the deck of cards;
• (v) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the dealer's hand based on predetermined poker rankings;
• (vi) after the three cards are dealt face up for the dealer's hand, determine a best three card hand from all of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings and when the player selected placing the draw bet, the determination of the best three card hand is made from all four of the cards in the player's hand based on said predetermined poker rankings;
• (vii) compare the dealer's best three card hand to the player's best three card hand, said comparison being made regardless of a rank of the dealer's best three card hand;
• (viii) when the player's best three card hand is a winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the play bet and did not select placing the doubling down bet or the draw bet, provide the player an award from a plurality of awards based on a predetermined paytable;
• (ix) when the player's best three card hand is the winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the doubling down bet, provide the player one of the awards based on the predetermined paytable;
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• (x) when the player's best three card hand is the winner according to said predetermined poker rankings over the dealer's best three card hand based on the comparison, and the player selected placing the draw bet, provide the player a draw bet award, said draw bet award independent of any rank of said player's best three card hand in the predetermined paytable.