Abstract: A card game for a plurality of players includes two decks of cards having identical playing surfaces and visually distinguishable decorative non-playing back surfaces. The game also includes game tokens and game token containers. In setting the game up, one card from a first of the two decks is placed under each of the game token containers. As one of the players serves as a broker the cards from a second of the two decks are auctioned off, one at a time, to the highest bidder from among the players. The proceeds from the auction are placed in the containers. After all the cards from the second deck have been auctioned off the broker recalls the cards one a time using the first of the two decks which has a set of playing surfaces identical to those in the second deck. During the recall the broker opens the game to a trading session during which the players buy, sell and trade their remaining cards among themselves.