Card game

Abstract

This present invention comprises a two handed game in which comparison is made between the two hands of a player and a banker. Both hands of the player must have a point total greater than the corresponding two hands of the banker in order to win. Each hand of the player and the banker contain only two cards. The ranking of card pairs is changed over previous two handed games.

1 . A game of chance comprising the steps: 
 (a) two or more players participate, wherein one player is also a banker;    (b) a standard 52 card deck consisting of four of each of 2's through 10's, jacks, queens, kings and aces is shuffled and eight sets of four cards are dealt, where the banker and each other player receives one of the sets of four cards in a manner that keeps the identity of a player's set of cards secret from the others;    (c) each player arranges their four card set into two hands of two cards, forming a high value hand and a lower value hand, according to the player's choice under the following ranking and point value: 
 (1) a first through thirteenth rank of two card hands respectively consist of pairs of Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, 10's, 9's, 8's, 7's, 6's, 5's, 4's, 3's, and 2's; and  
 (2) all other two card hands are of lower ranking than in (c)(1) and have a comparative rank among themselves according to their point value as in a table below showing point values of those lower ranked two card hands, whereby a top row of the table is a first card for a two card hand and a left column is a second card of the two card, where the intersection of the other rows and columns represents the point value of such a two card hand as follows:  
                                                                                         2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   Jack   Queen   King   Ace                                                                                2       5   6   7   8   9   0   1   2   2   2   2   3      3           7   8   9   0   1   2   3   3   3   3   4      4               9   0   1   2   3   4   4   4   4   5      5                   1   2   3   4   5   5   5   5   6      6                       3   4   5   6   6   6   6   7      7                           5   6   7   7   7   7   8      8                               7   8   8   8   8   9      9                                   9   9   9   9   0     10                                       0   0   0   1     Jack                                           0   0   1     Queen                                               0   1     King                                                   1     Ace                                                       
    and    (d) a winner as between the banker and any other player is made by a determination that both the high and low hands of one player are, first, higher in rank or second, higher in point value, than both the high and low hands of the other player.    
     
     
         2 . The game of chance of  claim 1  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have a point value of zero.  
     
     
         3 . The game of chance of  claim 1  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have the same cards.  
     
     
         4 . The game of chance of  claim 3  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have a point value of zero.  
     
     
         5 . The game of chance of  claim 1  wherein, if competing high value hands or lower value hands each have an equal point value, a tie resolution determines the winning hand by the presence in said hands of the highest valued card in the following sequence, where the first card in the following sequence is of lowest value: 2 to 10, sequentially, jack, queen, king and ace.  
     
     
         6 . The game of chance of  claim 5  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have a point value of zero.  
     
     
         7 . The game of chance of  claim 6  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have the same cards.  
     
     
         8 . A card game comprising: 
 (a) a plurality of players, wherein one player is also a banker;    (b) a standard 52 card deck consisting of four of each of 2's through 10's, jacks, queens, kings and aces is shuffled and eight sets of four cards are dealt, where the banker and each other player receives one of the sets of four cards in a manner that keeps the identity of a player's set of cards secret from the others;    (c) each player arranges their four card set into two hands of two cards and places a bet, forming a high value hand and a lower value hand, according to the player's choice under the following ranking and point value: 
 (1) a first through thirteenth rank of two card hands respectively consist of pairs of Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, 10's, 9's, 8's, 7's, 6's, 5's, 4's, 3's, and 2's; and  
 (2) a highest point value of any two cards which are not a pair is nine points and the lowest is zero points, whereby kings, queens, jacks and 10's have a zero point value; aces have a point value of one; number cards from 2 to 9 have a point value equal to their face value; and, when the sum of point values of a pair of cards exceeds ten, the tens column number is truncated and the unit column number represents the point value of the hand.  
   (d) a winner as between the banker and any other player is made by a determination that both the high and low hands of one player are, first, higher in rank or second, higher in point value, than both the high and low hands of the other player.    
     
     
         9 . The game of chance of  claim 8  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have a point value of zero.  
     
     
         10 . The game of chance of  claim 8  wherein the banker has the two card hand of superior rank or point value where competing high value hands or lower value hands each have the same cards.