Method of playing a card game for a casino

Abstract

A card game is played on a felt covered semicircular table top with player stations along its arcuate edge. Pairs of cards of a deck are dealt face up until a pair consists of two cards of unequal rank. The two cards are respectively designated a B card and a P card. Cards of the deck are thereafter dealt face up until a conclusion card is dealt that is equal in rank to either the B card or the P card. A player makes a color wager on the color of a card that is dealt face up, a HI/LO wager on the rank of the card that is dealt face up and a P/B wager on the rank of the conclusion card.

I claim: 
     
       1. In the method of playing a card game, suitable for a casino environment, with a standard deck of cards and a joker with cards that bear nominal identifications two through ten, jack, queen, king and ace having rankings that differ from each other, the cards also bear color identification wherein each card is identified by one of two colors, the steps of: successively dealing pairs of cards of the deck face up until a pair consists of two cards of unequal rank;   designating a first and a second of said two cards as a .[.B.]. .Iadd.P .Iaddend.card and a .[.P.]. .Iadd.B .Iaddend.card, respectively;   successively dealing cards face up until a conclusion card is dealt that has the same rank as either the P card or the B card; and   having a player make a color wager by choosing which of the colors a card dealt after the P card and B card will have, the color wager being won when the color of the card corresponds to said choice, having a player make a HI/LO wager by choosing whether the rank of a card, dealt after the P card and B card, will be of a high ranking greater than a predetermined rank or whether the rank of the card will be of a low ranking less than the predetermined rank, the HI/LO wager being won when the rank of the card corresponds to said choice, and having a player make and a P/B wager by choosing whether the rank of the conclusion card will be equal to the P card or the B card, the P/B wager being won when the rank of the conclusion card corresponds to said choice.   
     
     
       2. In the method of claim 1 wherein said player loses all wagers when a first dealt card is the joker. 
     
     
       3. In the method of claim 2 wherein said player loses said color and HI/LO wagers when a card dealt after said first dealt card is the joker. 
     
     
       4. In the method of claim 1 wherein said player has an option of making a hedge wager that a card to be dealt is the joker. 
     
     
       5. In the method of claim 1 wherein said player loses said color and HI/LO wagers when a dealt card is a specified card. 
     
     
       6. In the method of claim 5 wherein said player has an option of making a hedge wager that a card to be dealt is said specified card. 
     
     
       7. In the method of claim 1 wherein cards that bear the identifications ace, two, three, four five and six are referred to as low ranking cards and cards that bear the identification eight, nine, ten, jack queen and king are referred to as high ranking cards, said HI/LO wager being made by said player making a choice of either a high rank or a low rank, said HI/LO wager being won when the rank of a next turned card corresponds to said choice. 
     
     
       8. In the method of claim 1 where the hearts and diamond suits of the deck are collectively identified as being the color, red and the spade and club suits of the deck are collectively identified as being the color, black, said color wager being made by said player making either a choice of the color, red or a choice of the color, black, said color wager being won when the color of a next turned card corresponds to said choice.