Craps blackjack
AssigneeHui Chuan Chen
InventorsHui Chuan Chen, Martin Chi Wong
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Abstract
A modified blackjack card game using an electronic gaming machine and 6 or 8 decks of standard playing cards without jokers, Craps Blackjack is playing in electronic device, computer, slot machine, video game, etc. and using two steps wagering strategies, win or lose at two initial cards and continue to play or fold the hand and providing six side bets. It is a card game combined the playing method of craps, poker and blackjack. It provides optional side bets, dragon's head and phoenix's tail, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six and two main bets, Craps Blackjack and Any Craps.
Claims15
A playing method for a plurality of players and a dealer using an electronic gaming machine, and a computer to generate images of 6 or 8 decks of standard playing cards to play a Craps Blackjack card game, the gaming machine having a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions and executed by a processor to perform the steps of:
- (a) providing a designed layout with Any Craps betting circle as a primary bet, Craps Blackjack betting circle as a secondary bet and optional side bets, dragon's head and phoenix's tail, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six, and with 6 or 8 decks of playing cards image or an electronic representation of cards on an electronic display;
- (b) allowing a player to place a wager on dragon's head—phoenix's tail side bet, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six and Any Craps, and Craps Blackjack;
- display a player with two initial playing cards;
- display a dealer with two initial playing cards;
- resolving the wagers on dragon's head—phoenix's tail side bet, optional side bets, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six, and Any Craps and Craps Blackjack bet corresponding to first two initial cards;
- allowing the player to fold the hand or continue to play a blackjack game using the two initial playing cards;
- allowing both player and dealer take additional cards;
- comparing the final total pip number of player's hand to the total pip number of dealer's hand and resolving the wager of player;
- (c) allowing players wager on Any Craps bet that is betting on the first two initial cards having a total pip number of 2, 3, or 12 only with or without side bet wager, or wager on Craps Blackjack bet that is betting on the first two initial cards having a total pip number of 7 or 11 only with or without side bet wager or wager on both Any craps and Craps Blackjack with or without side bet wager before the two initial cards are dealt to players and house dealer;
- (d) accepting player wagers on side bets, dragon's head and phoenix's tail that is betting on player's two initial cards combined with dealer's face up card to form a straight, ace-deuce that is betting on player's two initial cards contains an ace and a deuce, ace-ace that is betting on player's two initial cards contains two aces, six-six that is betting on player's two initial cards contains two sixes, any 7 that is betting on player's two initial cards total of 7, and any 11 that is betting on player's two initial cards total of with wager on either or both Any Craps bet and Craps blackjack bet;
- (e) dealing the player/players and dealer two initial cards;
- and dealing player/players and dealer additional cards based on the game rules;
- (f) providing a game rules 1) wagers on Any Craps bet will lose when the two initial cards dealt to player has a total of 7 or 11;
- a game rule 2) wagers on Craps Blackjack bet will lose when the two initial cards dealt to player has a total of 2, 3, or 12;
- a game rule 3) players have a second chance to bet on the two initial cards after player lose the wager on Any Craps with additional wager place on Craps Blackjack and receiving additional cards to complete the game;
- providing players a second chance to bet on the two initial cards after lose the wager on Craps Blackjack with additional wager place on Craps Blackjack and receiving additional cards to complete the game;
- (g) providing a game rule 4) the players the option of fold the hand or continue play the hand after win the wager on Any Craps and Craps Blackjack or lose the bet on Any Craps and Craps Blackjack when the pip number of first two initial cars total is 2, 3, 12, 7, or 11;
- game rule 5) player can surrender the hand or continue play the hand when the total pip number of first two initial cards are 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 or 20 with rules of conventional blackjack card game;
- (h) completing the craps blackjack game pursuant to pre-established rules of the craps blackjack game, said pay or take the wager on side bets, dragon's head and phoenix's tail, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six and Any craps bet or Craps blackjack bet;
- after the wager lost on Any craps or Craps blackjack, players has to place a secondary wager in order to continue play the game with the original two initial cards, then machine/dealer deals additional cards to the hand with any total pip number as player's request, compare dealer's hand to player's hand individually, and resolve the wager on Any Craps and/or Craps Blackjack;
- (i) resolving the player wager pursuant to pre-established payouts of dragon's head—phoenix's tail side bet, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six before additional card deals;
- (j) resolving the player wager pursuant to pre-established payouts of Any craps and Craps blackjack after compare the hands of player and dealer hand;
- (k) providing a game rule 6) that allowing players to take additional cards, stand on any pip number total is not excess 21, split the pairs, place additional wager said, double on any number of two initial cards, surrender the hand with losing half of the wager on the two initial cards;
- and placing the secondary wager on Craps Blackjack bet when player lost the wager on Any Craps or Craps Blackjack and still want to play the game;
- game rule 7) the higher total point a hand can get is 21 and any total point is over 21 considering as bust, also called lost;
- if the total of the value of the cards in the dealer's hand is 21 or less and is greater than the value of the cards in the player's hand, then the player loses the bet;
- if the total of the value of the cards in the player's hand is 21 or less and is greater than the total of the value of the cards in the dealer's hand, then the dealer loses the bet;
- if the player's and dealer's hand are of equal value and 21 or less, then the bet is pushed;
- game rule 8) a blackjack hand is the two initial cards contains an ace and a ten value card or any face card and it is higher than 21;
- (l) requiring dealer resolve the wager on dragon's head—phoenix's tail side bet, ace-deuce, ace-ace, any eleven, any seven, and six-six, Any craps and Craps Blackjack Bet, then continue dealing the game, and resolve the wager on Any craps and Craps Blackjack Bet;
- dragon's head—phoenix's tail side bet is a three card straight, dealer's face-up card combines player's two initial card, dealer's face-up has to be the beginning of straight or the end of the straight in order to win the bonus;
- (m) providing a game rule 9) that Any Craps bet will lose on the two initial cards have a total pips of seven and eleven;
- Craps Blackjack bet will lose on the two initial cards have a total pips of two, three, and twelve;
- Any Craps bet will win on the two initial cards have a total pips of two and three, and push on twelve;
- Craps Blackjack bet will win on the two initial cards have a total pips of seven and eleven;
- (n) game rule 10) allowing player who lost the wager on Any Craps bet or Craps Blackjack bet to have an option of playing the hand with additional wager, same amount as the original wager on Any craps or Craps Blackjack, place on Craps Blackjack bet or fold the hand;
- (o) assigning a total number of two initial cards dealt to player to be the winning number and losing number as following:
- Any 7, said 3-4, 2-5, ace-6 and Any 11, said 2-9, 3-8, 4-7, 5-6, are the winning number of Craps Blackjack bet and losing number of Any Craps bet;
- Any 12, said 3-9, 4-8, 5-7, 6-6, are the pushing number of Any Craps bet and ace-deuce and ace-ace are the winning number of Any Craps bet, and Any 12, said 3-9, 4-8, 5-7, 6-6, ace-deuce and ace-ace are losing number of Craps Blackjack bet.
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