Card game and methods of playing a card game

Abstract

A system and method for playing a card game are disclosed. The card game may be played with a real deck of cards and an associated playing surface or with a virtual deck of cards as part of a virtual card game on a processor-based platform. The method comprises placing at least one wager by betting a monetary amount for a current round of play and dealing an arrangement of playing cards and revealing a face of each of the dealt playing cards during the round of play. The method further comprises identifying any predefined progression sequences appearing in the arrangement of the dealt playing cards. The method also includes paying any winning wager according to the monetary amount bet and odds associated with the identified progression sequences for the current round of play.

1 . A method of playing a card game, said method comprising: 
 dealing an arrangement of playing cards and revealing a face of each of said dealt playing cards during said current round of play;    identifying any predefined progression sequences appearing in said arrangement of said dealt playing cards; and    indicating winning based upon said identified progression sequences for said current round of play.    
   
   
       2 . The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising the steps of placing at least one wager and paying on any winning wager according to the amount of the wager for a current round of play.  
   
   
       3 . A processor-based system for implementing a virtual card game, said processor-based system comprising: 
 at least one processor to execute playing of said virtual card game, and wherein said playing of said virtual card game comprises the steps of electronically dealing an arrangement of virtual playing cards and revealing a face of each of said dealt playing cards during said current round of play, electronically identifying any predefined progression sequences appearing in said arrangement of said dealt playing cards, and indicating any winning wager according to said identified progression sequences for said current round of play;    a program memory interfacing to said at least one processor to store software associated with said virtual card game;    a user interface connecting to said at least one processor to allow a player of said virtual card game to select various functional inputs of said virtual card game;    an image memory interfacing to said at least one processor to store image data of said virtual card game to be displayed;    a display controller interfacing to said image memory to extract image data from said image memory in a controlled manner and to convert said image data to video data; and    a display interfacing to said display controller to accept said video data from said display controller such that said video data is presented to said player on said display.    
   
   
       4 . The method according to  claim 3 , further comprising the steps of placing at least one wager and paying on any winning wager according to the amount of the wager for a current round of play.