Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-04
2001-01-09
Chapman, Jeanette (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
C273S274000, C273S303000, C463S012000, C463S013000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06170827
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to card games and, more specifically, to a gaming card game using one or more standard decks of playing cards involving a dealer and up to seven players wherein each player is playing his or her hand against the dealer's hand. The principal application of the invention is commercial casinos, which entice the gaming public with a variety of card and other gambling games. However, the invention may also be practiced in other settings, wherein amusement is derived from a gambling game employing playing cards. Private gatherings, social clubs, and other recreational endeavors drawing numbers of gambling devotees together can employ the present invention.
2. Description of the Prior Art
There are numerous card games involving one or more decks of playing cards and incorporating gaming or gambling with tokens. These card games may be suitable for the purposes for which they where designed, but have lost a certain measure of allure to the gaming public due to excessive long standing familiarity. It is thus desirable to provide a new and novel card game wherein a number of players each pit their hands against a dealer's hand.
Games such as blackjack, poker, and others pit a dealer against a plurality of other players. The value of the player's hands, taken individually, is pitted against that of the dealer's hand. This may be accomplished by simple arithmetic addition, or by arbitrarily awarding superior status to certain cards or to certain combinations thereof.
However, all prior art games known to the applicants fail to offer an automatic opportunity on every deal to split a card holding into two independently pursued holdings, as occurs in the present invention.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to card games and, more specifically, to a gaming card game using one or more standard decks of playing cards. The participants include a dealer and up to seven players, wherein each player is playing his or her hand against the dealer's hand. In the play, the players pit the game value of their cards against the game value of the dealer's cards. Each player is given an opportunity to divide his dealt holding into two new holdings. Each of the resulting new holdings are pitted independently against corresponding holdings of the dealer. Alternatively, the player can attempt to gain the stake by playing fewer than the number of dealt cards, with some cards being withdrawn from play.
It is further desirable to provide variations of the aforementioned card game by varying the value of the cards, by varying the number of wagering steps in a hand and value of tokens wagered, and by allowing a player to split one hand into two hands based on the value of his two card hand. In addition, combinations of players' cards can be made, in certain situations, by combining cards from the dealer with his or her own original cards. The option to divide the holding and to pursue a stake with fewer than the originally dealt cards, and the option to utilize another's cards mark significant differences between prior art card games and the novel game.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a card game suitable for gaming which is new to the gaming public.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a new and novel card game using one or more decks of playing cards and a plurality of tokens.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new and novel card game using one or more decks of playing cards and a plurality of tokens wherein a player has an opportunity to win back his or her ante without continuing to play the full deal.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new and novel card game wherein players can better their hands based on cards held in another hand.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a new and novel card game wherein players can increase the number of cards in their hands after dealing has been terminated.
Additional objects of the present invention will appear as the description proceeds.
To the accomplishment of the above and related objects, this invention may be embodied in the form illustrated in the accompanying drawings, attention being called to the fact, however, that the drawings are illustrative only, and that changes may be made in the specific construction illustrated and described within the scope of the appended claims.
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Brand Eric
Lombardo Paul A
Chapman Jeanette
Kroll Michael I
Mendiratta Vishu
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