Business card Texas Hold'em Card combination

Abstract

A business card combination, comprised of a card body which has at least two severable sections, one severable section is a business card and another section is a Texas Hold'em Card; in which the Texas Hold'em Card has hidden representations of each of the fifty-two cards of a standard deck of playing cards, with two of those hidden representations being separately identifiable, and in which the covering hiding the representations of the playing cards can be easily removed; and in which the rules of how to play a Texas Hold'em game using the Texas Hold'em Card section are printed on the Texas Hold'em Card section.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates in general to printed promotional items and promotional gambling games, and in particular to business cards and the like and no-loss gambling cards and tickets. BACKGROUND ART [0002] Business cards have been a promotional and identification staple of all types of businesses and professionals for many decades. The extremely common nature of the business card coupled with over a century of use has made it more difficult for a person to get potential customers interested in paying attention to business cards. Printing companies have tried various means to make business cards more appealing or unique. The prior art of the business card, includes business cards with raised lettering, business cards with a photograph of the person the card is identifying, and business cards with maps to help locate the business, to name just a few. [0003] Gambling has always been popular, and in particular the different poker games have been very popula...

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Benefits of technology

[0008] A fourth object of the invention was to provide a business card poker game combination that met all of the preceding three objects and also allowed for the possibility of players being able to win something by playing the poker game portion of the combination.

Problems solved by technology

The extremely common nature of the business card coupled with over a century of use has made it more difficult for a person to get potential customers interested in paying attention to business cards.

However, no-loss or no-cost poker has also been a possibility, for those who play “for fun”, betting nothing, and therefore risking no loss but also having no chance of a gain.

In addition, such a free poker game offering will not in-and-of-itself cause the people to pay more attention to the business cards of the establishment in which they are playing the free poker game.

It is also the situation that the providing and running of such free poker games takes up the time of the people who are running them, and uses space in the business's premises.

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