Method and apparatus for playing royal card stud poker and royal card draw poker games

摘要

A method and apparatus for playing, via an electronic video game machine, a player-versus-paytable five-card poker game utilizing the 20 royal cards of a standard 52-card poker deck as a royal deck of cards with player pay-off awards based upon predetermined amounts related to a paytable of winning five-card hands. Bet wagers are initially accepted by the game machine from the player. Where the royal card poker game is a draw poker game the game machine deals and displays five cards face-up on the machine's video screen. Where the poker game is a stud poker game the game machine deals and displays three or four cards face-up and one or two cards face-down. The player, after viewing the video displayed cards, is permitted to stand on the initial bet wager or double the bet wager. Where the game is draw poker, the player is then permitted to discard one or more cards and exchange the discarded cards for substitute machine dealt cards to complete the poker hand. Where the game is stud poker, the player is then permitted to turn up the one or two original face-down cards to complete the poker hand. The game machine then evaluates the player's completed royal card hand to determine whether or not the hand comprises a winning hand in accordance with the paytable of winning hands with game machine pay-off to the player for a winning hand.