Abstract: A system for determining the skill of a player eliminates the element of chance by comparing players who have the same initial position. In the case of cards, the initial position is the hand dealt to the player and in tile games, it is the initial distribution and arrangement of tiles. A player with a less than advantageous initial position may win a game over an opponent having a better initial position. It cannot conclusively be said whether this win is due to the good play of the winner or the bad play of the loser. However, it can clearly be said that the winning player has a higher skill level than the losing player.

Abstract: A game machines has a back side display unit composed of reels for displaying back patterns, and a front side display unit composed of transparent EL panels for displaying overlapping patterns overlapping with the back patterns. The back side display unit and the front side display unit are disposed not to produce blind spot regions of the back patterns. The game machine can provide various overlapping patterns with good visibility and a high game selection capability to a player.

Abstract: A poker game that uses a five card hand in making certain determinations related to player payouts is provided. The game has one or more community cards that can be used by each player and, preferably also, by the dealer in deciding the best five card player and dealer hands. The player payouts can include a predetermined hand and higher payout and a bet payout. The predetermined hand and higher payout does not depend on whether the dealer hand is a qualified hand. The bet payout does depend on whether the dealer hand is a qualified hand. The community card by itself can also be used in determining a player payout.

Abstract: A method of playing a game of chance wherein at least one first wager and at least one second wager are placed by a player. In response to said first and second wagers, at least one first set of game indicia are distributed and evaluated according to a first set of game rules. If at least a predetermined number of said first set of game indicia result in a losing outcome, a second chance of winning is provided to the player in two different manners: a) distributing at least one second set of gaming indicia, which are evaluated according to a second set of game rules, said second set of game rules may be identical to the first set of game rules; or b) evaluating the at least one first set of game indicia by applying a third set of game rules.

Abstract: A pai gow-type game in which a player wagers on one or more of a group of player hands, and where the chances of winning are not enhanced by the skills of the player and no discretion in the arrangement of hands is vested in either the player or dealer. A number of player hands and one or more banker hands are dealt on a playing surface and players wager as to which player hand or hands will beat the banker hand or hands. Each of the banker and player hands is arranged into a high hand and a low hand where the high hand has a higher rank than the low hand. A player hand is a winning hand if the player high hand has a higher rank than the banker high hand and the player low hand has a higher rank than the banker low hand. A player hand is a losing hand if the player high hand has a rank that is equal to or lower than the banker high hand and the player low hand has a rank that is equal to or lower than the banker low hand. Players that wagered on a winning player hand are paid based on the amount of the wager.

Abstract: Card play is further enhanced by a method for playing a cards comprising; wagering whether a random card drawn will have particular, prechosen card features; indicating to the dealer which card down in the deck the card to be examined is; dealing down to that card; and paying the wager if the player has chosen the right particular, prechosen features of the card.

Abstract: A method of playing a card game includes the steps of: providing n number of cards from a deck of cards to each player; requiring each player to select and remove x number of cards from their n number of cards to make a card hand of x number of selected cards and n?x number of unselected cards; requiring each player to discard their unselected cards to provide a pile of unselected cards; turning each card in the pile face up; allowing each player in turn to swap one card from their card hand for one card from the pile of face up unselected cards, or to pass, until each player has decided to stay with their card hand; requiring each player to reveal their card hand; and determining the winning card hand by a predetermined set of rules. Additionally, providing a community card may be included in the method.

Abstract: A wagering game has a dealer compete against a player. The at least one player and the dealer receive a single card. The at least one player takes at least one mandatory hit card. If the at least one mandatory hit card has the specific relationship in rank to the single card, or if the at least one mandatory hit card allows the at least one player to continue the game, the player having the option of taking another hit card. When the player has elected to take no more hits or has taken a maximum number of hits, but has not taken a card that busts, the dealer taking at least one mandatory hit card the dealer taking hits until the dealer busts, until the dealer receives a predetermined maximum number of cards, or until the dealer has received a total number of cards that exceeds the total number of cards in all players' hands in the game.

Abstract: A method of playing a wagering game where each player is dealt a plurality of playing pieces. Each player will review the playing pieces. A first player will make a call of a total quantity of a numeric suit on all playing pieces. Each successive player will make a next call of the total quantity of the numeric suit of all playing pieces unless another player challenges that the call is incorrect. For each successive call, the next call has to be one where either the quantity of the numeric suit increases, a value of the numeric suit increases and the quantity stays the same, or both the quantity and the numeric suit increases. After a challenge is made, each player will display the playing pieces. A winning player is decided by seeing if the total quantity of the numeric suit of all playing pieces by a last player to make a call is correct or if the player challenging is correct.

Abstract: The invention comprises a new method of the playing traditional and non-traditional dice games by displaying locations some or all of the potential outcomes of the rolls of two, six sided dice on a screen and allowing users to place on screen wagers. The user may then select from among the locations after making dice wagers utilizing statistical payout statistics associated with the dice game used. This may allow for play on a touch screen allowing all of the traditional play of dice utilizing a display scenario wherein locations are provided to show wagers or on a traditional craps table modified for screen format as well as locations from which single dice or paired dice selections can be made. In addition a table layout is provided for allowing multiple players to play based on single roll with sequential players sequentially picking the dice outcomes from the group.

Abstract: Card games that combine the play of Blackjack (“21”) with a 3-card Poker wager or side bet (“21+3”). Each player places a basic Blackjack wager and an optional 3-card Poker wager before the cards are dealt. Each player is then dealt a card with the dealer receiving a face-up card. Each player is dealt a second card. At this point, the outcome of each 3-card Poker hand is determined, where a 3-card Poker hand consists of the 2-card hand dealt to that player and the dealer's face-up card. After settling the Poker wagers, the game of Blackjack continues in a typical fashion. The invention advantageously retains all the features and advantages of Blackjack as well as provides the dynamics of 3-card Poker, without interfering with the card sequence, for enhanced player anticipation and enjoyment.

Abstract: A new casino game is disclosed. The casino game has a new layout, card draw, payouts, and dealing procedures. The casino game uses a standard deck of fifty-two cards. The layout of the casino game has a high return area, optional bets area, card value area, color chips area, cash chips area and card stand. The card value area has a card value box for each of the thirteen valued cards from the deck. Adjacent to each card value box is a suit box for each of the four suits. The optional bets area has a straight, flush, straight flush, royal flush, full house and four-of-a-kind box. The bets offered are even chances, high stakes chances and very high stakes chances. The players win if the cards drawn match the bets that they have placed on the layout. The casino game has various payouts for the possible winning cards/bets.

Abstract: The present invention is a variant of traditional Twenty-One in which the dealer and players attempt to build a hand with a value of twenty-one, or as close to twenty-one as possible without exceeding twenty-one, using cards that are known to players and the dealer as they are dealt and shared cards that remain unknown until all player and/or dealer decisions are completed.

Abstract: A player makes a wager and initiates game play, dealing a first hand of at least five cards all face up to the player. The player may hold none, one or more of the face up cards and draw replacement cards for the unheld cards. The player also has the options to wager on and duplicate none, one or more of the dealt cards into one or more five-card hands. If the player holds none of the cards and duplicates the dealt cards only, the player can hold the cards in the dealt hand and the duplicated hands in any traditional manner the player selects. The player is also given the option to select none, one or more winning outcomes for one or more of the five card hands.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for amusement and gaming is described. The apparatus includes a board comprising horizontal and vertical disposed lines that enclose a plurality of playing areas, wherein the playing areas are arranged into an equal number (N) of rows and columns of at least 10, and each playing area in a row and column contains an indicia corresponding to a first through an N-th number to identify the playing area in each row and column wherein each row and column may not repeat an indicia, and a plurality of game pieces comprising a first side and a second side wherein the first side is distinguishable from the second side and comprising N sets of game pieces having on both the first side and the second side the same indicia corresponding to a first through N-th number. The apparatus may tangible or virtually generated.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a card game in which at least one card, and preferably six cards, are dealt to at least one player position, and preferably seven player positions. To initiate a round of play, a number of cards are dealt face down to each of the player positions. The player selects a card from amongst the dealt cards which is then assigned as the dealer's card. The player makes a wager to elect to play one or more of the remaining player positions. All the cards are turned face up and each player position card is individually compared to the dealer's assigned card. A winning status occurs for wagered position in which the player's upturned card has a higher ranking than the dealer's assigned card.

Abstract: A method of playing a poker-type wagering game is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) placing a mandatory Ante bet to participate in a poker-type card game against a dealer hand; b) placing a mandatory Super Bonus bet on the occurrence of one of a predetermined plurality of winning poker hands; c) a dealer dealing at least two hands of cards to the dealer position and a hand of cards to each player participating in the game; d) and when the dealer's first hand meets or exceeds a predetermined high ranking hand value, discarding the first hand and playing the second hand; e) each player placing an additional mandatory Bet after viewing at least the player's hand of cards to stay in the game; f) resolving each player hand against the dealer hand; g) paying the player on the Ante and Bet if the player's hand ranking exceeds that of the dealer; and h) paying the player on the Super Bonus bet if the player hand is one of a plurality of predetermined winning poker hands.

Abstract: Methods and systems for conducting gaming activities are disclosed. In one method, wagers are placed on a game and cards are dispensed. An indicia of a play card is used to determine an outcome of the game. A feature bet is included, wherein if the indicia of the play card is a predetermined indicia, an indicia of the second card is identified. If a predetermined indicia on the second card is identified, a feature bet payoff is made to players that wagered on the feature bet. A method and system for a roulette game are also disclosed. A roulette wheel is used to determine which card of a deck of cards determines the outcome of the roulette game. A craps game system and method are further described. Dice are used to determine which card of a deck of cards determines the outcome of the craps game.

Abstract: A casino table or slot game whereby players bet on a moving piece on a table. The piece can move in two opposite directions on a line, the movement being determined by a random number generating device such as die or dice. The die will continuously be rolled, and the piece will be moved accordingly, until the piece reaches either end of each side of the line. Players bet on which end of the line the piece will reach first.

Abstract: A method of playing a five card high-low wagering game comprises distributing one first pair of playing cards and a single playing card of at least one three playing card hand of at least one deck of playing cards to an evens portion having a first bet and an odds portion having a second bet of the game. A fourth playing card distributed from the deck provides a second pair of playing cards pairing with the single playing card. The first bet and the second bet are separately settled depending upon the face value of a fifth playing card of the deck when compared to the face value of each playing card of both of the first and second pair of playing cards. Both a gaming table layout and gaming machine of the five card high-low wagering game is disclosed.

Abstract: A method of playing a side game is provided in combination with a game of chance such as Pai Gow Poker where a dealer hand of playing cards is dealt to a dealer and a player hand of playing cards is dealt to a player. The method includes receiving a side game wager from the player, wherein after dealing the dealer hand and the player hand, all playing cards from the dealer hand and player hand are combined into a combined hand. The side game wager is resolved according to the playing cards in the combined hand. Typically, the side game wager is resolved according to non-poker combinations, such as characteristics of the playing cards including card color, picture cards or the like.

Abstract: A spinning reel slot machine comprises a plurality of mechanical rotatable reels and a video display. In response to a wager, the reels are rotated and stopped to randomly place symbols on the reels in visual association with a display area. The video display provides a video image superimposed upon the reels. The video image may be interactive with the reels and include such graphics as payout values, a pay table, pay lines, bonus game features, special effects, thematic scenery, and instructional information.

Abstract: A method of playing a game of chance comprising the steps of defining a set of wagers on the outcome of a plurality of differentiable random events, said random events defining an aggregate event, defining a set of payout odds associated with said wagers, accepting at least one player wager for at least one wager in said set of wagers, generating said plurality of differentiable random events, and paying winning wagers according to said payout odds.

Abstract: A method of managing a blackjack game is provided. A blackjack game bet comprising a bet against a house entity on a blackjack hand is received from a player. A pair of cards is determined for a hand for the house entity, and another pair of cards is determined for a hand for the player. The odds of the occurrence of one or more subsequent events are determined based at least in part on one or more of the pair of cards selected for the house entity's hand and one or more of the pair of cards selected for the player's hand. The odds for an additional bet are determined based at least on the determined odds for the one or more subsequent events, and the additional bet is offered to the player at the determined odds for the additional bet.

Abstract: A poker-type card game comprises at least one player making at least one ante wager in the poker-type game at least against a dealer's hand. The player receives a first number of cards and the dealer receives a second number of cards that is at least one card more then the number of cards received by the player. A set of community cards is provided that are used by the dealer and the player. One of the dealer's cards is exposed to the table to provide an exposed dealer card. The dealer is compelled to discard the exposed dealer's card if the rank of the exposed dealer's card is within a first range of values and the dealer is compelled to discard an unexposed dealer's card if the exposed dealer's card is within a second range of values. After resolving the status of the dealer's hand, the player may be allowed to amend the initial one ante wager.

Abstract: A method of playing a wagering card game named Pojack includes selected elements of the games of Blackjack and Poker, Pojack being played between a dealer and one or more players, where the dealer deals from a stack of cards containing a plurality of standard 52-card decks of cards and the Poker payout odds are predetermined. This game has rules wherein: a. each player elects to play Blackjack or Poker or both by placing a Blackjack bet or a Poker ante bet or both respectively, b. then the dealer deals according to standard Blackjack procedure to all those players who elected to play Blackjack, c. then before the dealer turns over his hole card and before he makes the Blackjack payout or collection to the players playing Blackjack, each player who previously made a Poker bet is invited to play Poker using his Blackjack hand as the beginning of his Poker hand by placing a Poker raise bet, d. then each player electing to play Poker places his raise bet, e.

Abstract: Crapless Craps, a game that has existed for more than 20 years, is a modification of standard craps designed to eliminate the possibility of the pass line bettor losing on the come-out roll. However, it has several serious drawbacks that have prevented it from achieving significant popularity with the gambling public. No-Crap Craps is a modification of Crapless Craps created to overcome these shortcomings. This aim is achieved by regarding every number except 7 as a point number, but with numbers 2 and 3 grouped together as 2-or-3, and numbers 11 and 12 grouped together as 11-or-12. When betting against the shooter, a seven-out after point 11-or-12 pays half. The result is that the house advantages of the pass line bet and the don't pass bet are exactly those of standard craps.

Abstract: A method for playing a casino card game which utilize a standard deck of playing cards containing numbered cards 2–10 and face cards; jack, queen, king and ace, ace being high. A playing surface is used for multiple players and a dealer. Each player position has three card receiving dock areas and corresponding wager playing areas thereon and a bonus wagering area. Three wagers are placed and a first card is dealt face down to each player. A second card is dealt to each player face up and wherein one of the equal wagers can be withdrawn by the player. Each player has their face down card turned over by the dealer and is dealt a last card face up. If the last card ranks or falls between the displayed cards in the player's hand is then a winner and a pay-off is made depending on card spread sequence. A double down doubling of wager option is also available during card play in which all wagers still remaining on the playing surface are doubled and the player receives a replacement card for the first card dealt.

Abstract: A novel card game is disclosed utilizing a standard deck of playing cards and played by combining the rules of tic-tac-toe and twenty-one or poker. The player places the cards at certain locations in order to accumulate combinations of twenty-one or in order to accumulate the best poker hands. Also disclosed are novel decks of game playing cards containing playing cards. One novel deck consists of groups of cards, each containing the numeric values of one through ten. The other novel deck contains 37 or 38 novel cards, each containing a numeric value one through 36, or a zero or a double zero, along with a color indication of red, black or green.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming console 40 having display means 41, and game control means 100 arranged to control images displayed on the display means 41. The game control means 100 are arranged to play a game wherein a plurality of symbols 43 are randomly selected and displayed on the display means 41 and, if a winning combination results, the console 40 pays a prize. The console 40 is characterised in that the displayed images include a first image component 31 which displays basic game features and a second image component 50 which displays image features which appear superimposed on the first image component 31. The second image component 50 is transparent, whereby the first image component 31 is visible through the second image component 50 under the control of the control means 100.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to card games and specifically, card games played for monetary gain in casinos. The game is an improvement over the traditional method of playing Blackjack or “21” in that it adds an incentive for a player to make a supplemental wager that also effects the betting strategy of the player. The supplemental wager will pay bonus money based on the value of the cards received from the dealer at the conclusion of the game.

Abstract: A gaming system comprises a plurality of tournament tables in at least one physical location wherein multiple players play identical hands of the same game thereby playing a game of skill with equal opportunity given to each player to win. The system including for each hand played a set of pre-packaged duplicate hands distributed to each tournament table so that each player in a tournament group will play an identical hand of cards.

Abstract: A proposition bet for Craps referred to as a FIRE BET™. The method includes predetermining a schedule of a pay-out table, players placing FIRE BET wagers at respective player betting areas prior to a shooter's initial come out; accumulating points responsive to outcomes of the shooter's dice throws, wherein points are made when a number 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10 is twice rolled before sevening out, and wherein repeating of any made number is ignored, and making a pay-out based upon the points accumulated and the schedule.

Abstract: A method of playing a card game. The object of the card game is that each player must achieve a preset minimum point value with a hand of three cards and beat the hand of a dealer. To achieve the minimum point value, the cards of the hand are added together and must be of the same suit. The exception to the rule is that all three (3) of a kind hands can be counted for points and always equals the point value of thirty and one-half (30½) points. In the card game, a hand of an Ace, King and Queen of the same suit equals a point value of thirty-one (31).

Abstract: An improved roulette game utilizing he existing roulette wheel and/or electronic LED wheel with an existing layout to enhance the game or roulette. Players make wagers on the conventional layout and using the plurality of token or chip acceptors as an extra wager to win either a major progressive jackpot or minor progressive jackpot.

Abstract: A method for playing a game has the steps of establishing a plurality of paths, each of which have a plurality of squares including a start square, an end square, and a plurality of value squares. Randomly traversing the paths to afford the possibility of two or more moves to reach the end square. Allowing a player to select one of the paths. Moving along the player selected path randomly, while awarding the player the values associated with squares landed upon. The randomness is by the steps of spinning a spinner, rolling a die or dice, employing a wheel, flipping a coin, or the use of a random number generator. The step of establishing a plurality of paths, each having a plurality of squares includes using a stop square, squares which cause additional movement. The steps of establishing intersecting paths or establishing one or more squares having a game associated with them are practiced. The method is in a casino game and a bonus game for a base game.

Abstract: This invention consists of a unique entertaining board game where the total value of two dice of different colors or with a recognizable difference, one designating possible single value numerals, (1 through 6), and the other values of possible numerals, times ten, (10 through 60), are added together, creating a strictly unique sequence of thirty-six numerals. The object of the game is to have a fixed or moveable designated numeral to determine the beating of the ladder by the player rolling the dice with a score of the designated numeral or greater, while the other players bet that the score will be either higher or lower than the designated number. A bank pays the winnings and takes in the losses.

Abstract: A method for a survey-based casino game. A first embodiment provides the survey-based casino game as a bonus game for an underlying casino game. A second embodiment provides a stand-alone survey-based casino game and a third embodiment provides back-and-forth play between a casino game and a survey-based casino game.

Abstract: A method for playing a modified Blackjack game is set forth using decks containing an extra 11 and/or 12 value card(s). Prior to play each player makes a Blackjack game wager and a suit wager. After one or more cards are dealt to each player a suit designating card is dealt and revealed and if one or both of the player's first two cards are of the same suit as the suit designating card, the player wins the suit wager. Thereafter, each player hand and the dealer hand are completed according to the rules of Blackjack (slightly modified due to the inclusion of the additional 11 and/or 12 value cards) and the Blackjack wagers are resolved.

Abstract: A side bet which may be implemented in any blackjack-style card game method provides an opportunity to win a bet based on combinations of three cards which may be the player's first two cards and the dealer's first card. The player may win the side bet with certain combinations of cards having different winning payouts.

Abstract: In a table game, ideally a game of blackjack, a player has an option of making 2nd chance wagers prior to any cards being dealt. A first type of 2nd chance wager is that the player's first two dealt cards have a total point value of “21.” A second type of 2nd chance wager is that a dealer's first two dealt cards have a total point value of “21.” When the player wins a 2nd chance wager, the dealer causes a numbered ball to be captured from a ball dispenser. The amount of the 2nd chance wager is multiplied by the number on the captured ball to determine the payout associated with the 2nd chance wager. Alternatively, the ball number or a summation of ball numbers may be used to calculate a cash value of the payout.

Abstract: The invention is a six-card-stud poker game. A Player who is not a Banker may play Poker Bet playing against a Banker's hand, and/or one or up to seven side bets betting on the contents of the Player's own hand. From their six dealt cards, every Player and the Banker each then selects and keeps his best 5-card poker hand and discards one card. A Player's Poker Bet wager wins if the Player is dealt a hand of six-card 8 high or six-card Straight Flush, or if the Player's best 5-card poker hand ranks the same as or higher than the Banker's best 5-card poker hand. A Player's side-bet wager wins a Player's best 5-card poker hand is one of predetermined winning hands of the type of the side bet he bets on. The Poker Bet wager and seven side-bet wagers are eight independent wagers and are settled separately.

Abstract: A method of gambling on a card game, said game being played with one or more conventional 52 card decks, comprising the steps of: players placing wagers on the next drawn card meeting a predetermined card outcome condition; a dealer drawing one card from a shuffled deck or decks; and the dealer paying said wagers, on the basis of the card having a face value that meets said predetermined outcome condition.

Abstract: A system and method for facilitating play of a poker game utilizing dealer qualification criteria that impact the manner in which the game proceeds. The player(s) and dealer ante, and starting hands are dealt to the player(s) and dealer. The player may fold and lose the ante, or place a bet. The dealer's starting hand must meet qualifying criteria, such as a particular poker rank. If it does not, the dealer does not qualify, and the player(s) win the dealer's ante amount. If the dealer's starting hand qualifies, the dealer calls the players' bets, and deals a community hand. Using their respective starting hands and the community hand, each of the players and the dealer arrives at a resulting hand. If a player's resulting hand beats the dealer's based on poker rank, that player wins. Multiple betting options and/or multiple dealer qualification criteria may be implemented to enhance gaming entertainment.

Abstract: A poker game based on an Aces and 8's legend pays a high multiple of the amount bet for the highest winning hand containing two pair of aces and 8's, and pays a lower multiple of the amount bet for the second highest winning hand containing two pair other than aces and 8's. A hand of less than a pair and neither an ace nor an 8 wins the amount bet, and all other hands lose. Dealing and betting rules can vary, and the game is adaptable to machine play.

Abstract: A player makes a wager to play multiple hands of a stud poker game. A plurality of initial partial hands are displayed to the player. Each initial partial hand has the same cards with the cards displayed face up to the player. Each hand is then completed as a stud poker final hand. The player wins or loses depending on the poker hand ranking of each final hand. If the player achieves two or more final hands of the same poker hand ranking, the amount won by the player is increased, preferably as multiples of the original payout amounts.

Abstract: A method and system for playing a dice game using a pair of dice. A primary player is first established. At least one wagers is then made from each player that one of a plurality of events will occur with the roll of the dice. The primary player then rolls the pair of dice. The wagers are then resolved based on each roll of the dice. Every roll of the dice presents a win/lose factor permitting players' wagers to be resolved with each roll. The game includes a playing surface for playing the game using a pair of dice, chips and a stick. The playing surface has a central area for all wagers that the result on the dice will be a seven, a first surrounding area around said central area for all wagers that the roll of the dice will result in a number greater than seven, and a second surrounding area around said central area for all wagers that the roll of the dice will result in a number less than seven.

Abstract: A card game is played with a set of playing cards and a gaming cloth (10), the gaming cloth (10) defining an area (12) in which a dealer may deal two or more cards constituting a house hand, and a plurality of player areas; each player area defining an area (14,16) in which two or more hands comprised of two or more cards may be dealt to a player; areas (18,20) corresponding to each hand for placing a bet on the hands beating the house hand; and an area (22) in which optional bets may be placed on the matching of the cards dealt to each player to specified hands.

Abstract: A method for playing a stand-alone and a bonus casino poker dice having X dice, each of the X dice having F faces with a different symbol thereon so as to form a set {S} of symbols on each of the X dice. The method of the present invention includes the steps of placing a wager; rolling the dice; holding none, any, or all of the rolled dice; ending the casino poker dice game when the dice are all held or when re-rolling occurs Y times; paying any winning combinations of symbols based on the placed wager and in response to the step of ending the game; re-rolling the non-held dice when less than all the X dice are held; and repeating various of these steps until the game ends. Variations on this basic method are set forth for stand-alone games, bonus games, used in conjunction with underlying gaming machines, and playing a bonus game of the present invention in parallel with an underlying game so that a number of hands are played.

Abstract: Players place a base wager on either a first hand or a second hand. Proposition wagers for pushes, ties, and bonus holdings may be placed. Three cards are dealt to a first and a second hand. Either hand may automatically win if it includes a predetermined three-card combination. If neither hand automatically wins, the hands are divided into two-card and single-card component hands. The component hands are compared. A tie occurs if the cards of each hand are equal in rank. A push occurs if each hand has one component hand that outranks the corresponding component hand of the other hand. Otherwise, a hand wins when both component hands outrank or tie the corresponding component hands of the other hand. Players wagering on the winning hand are rewarded.