Casino poker game

Abstract

The poker game utilizes a single standard fifty-two card deck of playing cards. A dealer deals three cards face down to each poker player. Thereafter, the dealer deals four cards face up on the poker table. Each of the four face up cards are community cards which are available for use by any of the players to form a poker hand. The poker game includes five rounds of betting in which a round of betting is held after the three cards are dealt to each player, and after each of the community cards are dealt upon the table, respectively. After the seventh card has been dealt (the fourth community card) and the fifth round of betting has been completed, a player utilizes a combination of down cards and community cards to form the best five card hand. Hands are then ranked in standard poker fashion to determine a winner.

Description

RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001]This application is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 61 / 041,599 filed on Apr. 2, 2008.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to a poker game played with a conventional deck of cards. A conventional deck of cards includes four suits (spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds) having thirteen cards each totaling fifty-two cards per deck. Often times, two additional joker cards are included in the deck. The present invention concerns the manner in which cards are dealt to the players and the manner in which players use the cards to form winning poker hands.[0003]There are a wide variety of poker games being played around the world. These poker games include Five Card Stud, Five Card Draw, Seven Card Stud, Texas Hold'em, and Omaha among many, many others. Typically, a single winner is determined by having the highest poker hand. Hands are ranked in standard poker fashion, namely Royal Flush, Straight ...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

[0022]An additional advantage of the present invention is that it provides for five rounds of betting.

[0023]Yet another advantage of the present invention is that the poker game captures most of the most popular features of the two most popular poker games, namely Texas Hold'em and Seven Card Stud.

[0024]Another advantage of the present poker game is that it provides players with more information at the beginning of the game than many prior art poker games thereby promoting fast play and limiting folding.

[0025]These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art but the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the drawings.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

[0026]FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating the poker game of the present invention employing the use of blind bets;

[0027]FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating the poker game of the present invention without the use of blind bets;

Problems solved by technology

Unfortunately, Texas Hold'em has numerous problems.

Another problem with Texas Hold'em is that only four rounds of betting are typically conducted.

Seven Card Stud poker also suffers from various drawbacks.

A drawback of Seven Card Stud poker is that it does not incorporate a dealing of community cards which are desired by many poker players.

Furthermore, the dealing of a down card at the end of the game makes the game incredibly unpredictable.

Conversely, Seven Card Stud can result in a bad hand or marginal playing hand becoming very strong only after the seventh down card has been dealt.

Conversely, strong hands can become unpredictably weak only after the seventh card has been dealt.

This results in players staying in too long or folding too early when they may have had a winning hand because their hand did not suggest strength.

Furthermore, the unpredictability of the last card causes betting to be unpredictable and not always particularly representative of a person's hand which can be undesirable to experienced poker players.

Seven Card Stud is also complicated in that players fold their “up” cards when folding their hands.

Unfortunately, it can be difficult for players to see, and thus remember, cards dealt to players at the other end of a table.

Further, some players do not wish to memorize cards or otherwise have poor memories, thus putting themselves at a disadvantage and thus making the game less desirable.

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