Abstract: A method for playing a card game with hybrid rules, which includes receiving wagers and dealing cards to form two- or three-card hands based on blackjack or poker wagering and dealing rules, valuing and ranking the two- or three-card hands based on modified baccarat valuing and ranking rules wherein a three-card hand outranks a two-card hand of equal sum modulo ten value, and resolving the wagers based on the valuing and ranking of the two- or three-card hands.

Abstract: A method of playing a poker game including the steps of: dealing hands to players; during one or more betting rounds, requiring each player to check, call, raise or fold within a predetermined time; for each player, indicating incremental elapsing of at least a portion of the predetermined time; if a player does not check, call, raise or fold within the predetermined time: declaring the player's hand dead if no bet exists in the betting round; or holding the player to a check if a bet exists in the betting round; after all betting rounds are completed, determining betting by ranking remaining hands.