Casino card game

Abstract

A casino card game that can be played by any amount of players, and one bank, with the only skill required being the knowledge of addition and recognition of a standard deck of playing cards. The game is substantially similar to “Pan 9,” with the object being to obtain a three-card hand with a sum total of nine or the closest thereto, and the players win if they beat the bank's hand. The game differs from “Pan 9” in that when the initial cards are dealt, four cards are dealt to each player and four cards are dealt to the bank, and no further cards may be dealt. Each player then must choose three of his four cards to create a sum total closest to nine. The remaining fourth card becomes the “kicker.” If a player's hand has a sum total greater than the bank's hand, the player wins. The kicker is not counted in the hand, and the kicker is used as a tie-breaking card, in the event of a player's hand being equal in value to the bank's hand. In the event that the bank's hand and a player's hand are equal, the greater valued kicker card wins.

1 . A casino card game comprising: 
 at least one deck of cards;    said deck of cards comprising a plurality of value cards, a hand of cards randomly dealt from said decks to at least one player;    said hand having; 
 (a) four cards, and  
 (b) value;  
   said hand comprising four cards having value determined by: 
 (a) selecting three cards from said hand to designate as a set,  
 (b) summing the value of said cards in three-card set to determine value of said set  
 (c) discarding the card not selected to be in said set  
 (d) valuing said discarded card separately from said set  
   
   
   
       2 . The casino card game of  claim 1  wherein a value of 10 is equal to a value of zero.  
   
   
       3 . The casino card game of  claim 2  wherein a two-digit value is equal to the value of the second digit.  
   
   
       4 . The casino card game of  claim 1  wherein a three-card set selected from a hand has a value of nine if said set includes a value card having variable value.  
   
   
       5 . The casino card game of  claim 1  wherein the value of a card having variable value is greater than the value of a card having constant value when neither card is part of a three-card set.