Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
1998-10-20
2001-01-30
Pierce, William M. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
C273S274000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06179293
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
A card game and apparatus are disclosed that have for each player a plurality of different hands and associated wagering or betting plans and strategies. More particularly, related is a card game and table apparatus that utilize a standard 52 card deck and incorporate elements of American stud poker, low ball poker, high ball poker, no peek poker, blackjack or “21”, and an ancient Chinese game of poker. From their initially distribution of cards, each player and the house or dealer form three different hands (one hand is poker-like and the other two hands are blackjack-like). Up to four bets are linked to the outcome of each player's cards as compared with the result of the house or dealer's cards.
2. Description of the Background Art
The games of poker and blackjack or similar equivalents have existed for centuries. Specifically, U.S. Pat. No. 4,836,553 discloses a poker game in which five cards are dealt to each player and the dealer. Should the dealer not have an ace and a king or better each player wins, but if the dealer has an ace and a king or better then standard poker hands establish the winner between each player and the dealer. Betting is coupled into each possible winning scenario.
A cumulative jackpot is included and betters win either all or a portion of this jackpot by having a hand containing a predetermined arrangement of cards.
Malek has developed casino games presented in related U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,265,882; 5,328,189; and 5,395,120. The '882 game is a combination of blackjack, draw poker, and baccarat in which each player play at least two of the three games against the dealer and other players. In the '189 game blackjack and baccarat are combined and each player can play both games against the dealer and other player. For the '120 game, the games of modified draw poker and blackjack are mixed into a situation in which each player bets and plays against other players and the house dealer.
A method of playing a multiple hand card game is presented in U.S. Pat. No. 5,322,295. The game involves multiple bettings. As each bet or wager is made a portion of the hand is dealt.
The foregoing patents reflect the state of the art of which the applicant is aware and are tendered with the view toward discharging applicant's acknowledged duty of candor in disclosing information which may be pertinent in the examination of this application. It is respectfully submitted, however, that none of these patents teach or render obvious, singly or when considered in combination, applicant's claimed invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to furnish a method of playing a card game that presents several chances for each player to win from the cards received from the house or dealer.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a card game between a house or dealer and at least one player in which poker and blackjack hands exist for each player in combination with mandatory and optional wagering.
A further object of the present invention is to describe a card game between a house or dealer and at least one player in which each player has one poker hand, a low blackjack hand, and a high blackjack hand in which a mandatory bet is associated with each of the three hands and an optional poker jackpot bet is linked to the outcome of the poker hand.
Still another object of the present invention is to supply a card game between a house or dealer and at least one player in which the assignment of the dealer is based on a comparison between a randomly generated number and assigned numbers for each player location.
Yet a further object of the present invention is to produce a gaming apparatus utilized in playing a card game between a house or dealer and at least one player in which poker and blackjack hands exist for each player in combination with mandatory and optional wagering.
Disclosed is a card game and method of playing a card game that is played between a house or dealer and one to seven players or on an automated machine operated by the house. Every player in the game selects at least one of eight player positions at a card table. The players then wager a mandatory poker ante, a mandatory high blackjack bet, and a mandatory low blackjack bet. If a player has been selected “dealer” by a randomized selection or by player's turn to deal cards in clockwise or counter clockwise direction from last dealer, no high hand or low hand bet is required. The house, dealer, or automated machine randomizes cards within a deck of 52 cards and distributes the randomized cards in a face down manner for each player.
Usually, the roll of one die (preferably an eight sided die), or other means, produces a random number that is utilized to determine who is dealer on the table. The numbers one through eight are assigned to the player positions in, usually, a clockwise manner. Using the established random number, the assigned number is matched to the established random number to produce the dealer position. From this position on, the house or dealer places a first of the five card hands in a clockwise distribution process until all of the players' hands are distributed to the player positions. Extra randomized cards not found within any of the hands and any of the hands at the player positions not matched with a player are placed into a discard area.
Each player arranges two or three of their the five card hand into a high blackjack hand and places the high blackjack hand one card at a time face down, ending up with one mandatory card face down, with one or two cards face up into a high hand designated area at their position on the card table. The remainder of their the five card hand is arranged into a low blackjack hand and placed one card at a time face down, ending up with one mandatory card face down, with one or two cards face up into a low hand designated area at their position on the card table. Cards may be placed in either hand at any time.
The house or dealer turns its five card hand into a two or three card high blackjack hand and places the high blackjack hand one card at a time face down ending up with one mandatory card face down with one or two cards face up onto the high hand designated area at the house or dealer position on the card table. The remainder of the house's or dealer's five card hand is arranged into a low blackjack hand and placed one card at a time face down, ending up with one mandatory card face down with one or two cards face up, on the low hand designated area at the house or dealer position on the card table. Cards may be placed in either hand at any time.
A poker hand for the house or dealer is created out of its randomized cards and a poker hand is created for each player hand out of their randomized cards.
Each player's hand is compared with each player's hand to establish a winning poker hand. A winning high blackjack hand, and a winning low blackjack hand are compared with dealer's hand to establish winning hand.
Winnings are allocated from each of the mandatory bets based on the comparison. Further, a determination of winning poker hands is made of winnings from each of the players who bet the optional poker bets.
A game apparatus utilized in playing a card game between a house or dealer and one to seven players comprises: a playing surface; a house or dealer position inscribed on the playing surface; a plurality of player positions designated on the playing surface for presenting player hands; a plurality of first betting regions marked on the playing surface for placing mandatory first bets; a plurality of second betting regions marked on the playing surface for placing mandatory second bets; a plurality of third betting regions marked on the playing surface for placing mandatory third bets.
Usually each of the plurality of player positions comprises a first domain for placing cards selected to be within a low blackjack hand and a second domain for placing cards selected to be within a high blackjack
Pierce William M.
Ritchey James M.
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