SIMPLIFIED, RAPID PLAY OF BACCARAT-TYPE GAME

摘要

A faster version of a playing card wagering game similar to baccarat includes, after a wager has been placed on at least one of a player hand winning outcome, a banker hand winning outcome or a tie, dealing exactly one or two cards to a player hand position and an initial single card to a dealer hand position. With two cards to the player position, the banker must receive a mandatory second playing card if the first banker card is a zero value card. With one card to the player position, a higher natural 8 or 9 hand wins. In all other circumstances, a third card is dealt to the lower count hand, and then a resulting higher count hand wins and a tie loses.

主权项

1. A method of playing a simplified wagering game using playing card symbols to determine a random event outcome comprising:
a) recognizing a wager on a player hand win, a banker hand win or a player hand-banker hand tie event according to final digit point count in the player hand and the banker hand; b) providing exactly two random standard playing cards face-up from a set of playing cards to a player position to form a first reduced set of of playing cards; c) providing exactly one first random standard playing card face-up from the first reduced set of playing cards to a banker position to from a second set of reduced playing cards; d) providing exactly one additional random standard playing card face up to the banker position from the second set of reduced playing cards only when and always when the exactly one first random standard playing card is a no-value playing card of a 10, Jack, Queen or King; e) summing up point count in each of the player hand and the banker hand separately, and valuing the player hand and the banker hand according to a last digit only in summed up point count; f) determining outcomes in a comparison between the player hand and the banker hand as follows:
i) a higher summed up point count in the player hand as compared to the summed up point count in the banker hand is a winning outcome for the player hand;ii) a higher summed up point count in the banker hand as compared to the summed up point count in the player hand is a winning outcome for the banker hand;iii) an identical summed up point count in the player hand as compared to the summed up point count in the banker hand is a tie outcome for both the player hand and the banker hand; h) resolving all wagers with payout odds in a) according to outcomes i), ii) or iii) determining the outcome of the wagers.