Methods and Apparatus of Playing Card Games of Strategy and Chance

摘要

Methods of playing card games of strategy and chance involving a main pot, bonus pot, and/or progressive pot in which players may perform atypical card game actions such as robbing or killing a dragon. Players invoke events by displaying, or playing, predetermined cards or pattern combinations of cards. Players may rob the dragon, thereby requiring all other players to return played cards back to their hand. Players may kill the dragon in order to win a bonus pot. Players may also be disqualified for committing a foul. The method of the present invention also increases revenue for a house hosting the method by requiring all players to place a wager prior to viewing his or her cards and by allowing the players more opportunities to raise his or her wagers.

主权项

1. A method of playing a table card game for at least two players comprising the steps of:
(a) providing components of a table card game including:
a game table, said game table including a main pot location, a bonus pot location, a raise pot location, a dealer card deck location, and a discard pile location; and at least two player display areas, each of said player display areas associated with one of said at least two players; anda plurality of cards; and (b) receiving an initial main pot wager from each of said at least two players in a respective one of said at least two player display areas; (c) receiving an initial bonus pot wager from each of said at least two players in a respective one of said at least two player display areas; (d) moving each of said initial main pot wager from each of said at least two player display areas to said main pot location; (e) moving each of said initial bonus pot wager from each of said at least two player display areas to said bonus pot location; (f) selecting a first player; (g) dealing a predetermined quantity of said plurality of cards face down to each of said at least two player display areas; (h) placing undealt ones of said plurality of cards in said dealer card deck location; (i) allowing each of said at least two players to view said predetermined quantity of said plurality of cards located in a respective one of said at least two player display areas; (j) initiating a wagering round by allowing said first player to perform a main pot raise by placing said main pot raise in said raise pot location; (k) allowing each of said players to sequentially perform a subsequent main pot raise by placing said subsequent main pot raise in said raise pot location; (l) allowing said first player to become a current player and initiate a flow by placing an initial pattern of one or more of said plurality of cards face up in said player display area of said first player; (m) allowing each of said players to sequentially become said current player; (n) allowing said current player to pass or place an allowed higher ranking pattern in said player display area of said current player; (o) continuing said flow until all of said players pass or one of said players holds zero of said plurality of cards; (p) repeating steps (f) through (o) until one of said players holds zero of said plurality of cards; and (q) declaring said one of said players holding zero of said plurality of cards as a winner of said table card game.