US 11,727,764 B2
Method for playing poker with a zero value playing card
Richard Jonathan Scott, Chico, CA (US)
Filed by Richard Jonathan Scott, Chico, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/463,668.
Application 17/463,668 is a continuation of application No. 16/171,218, filed on Oct. 25, 2018, granted, now 11,127,260.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/577,617, filed on Oct. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0398397 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A63F 1/00 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3293 (2013.01) [A63F 1/00 (2013.01); G07F 17/326 (2013.01); A63F 2001/003 (2013.01); A63F 2001/005 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of playing a card game between two or more players comprising:
providing a card game apparatus including a physical deck of fifty-three playing cards comprising fifty-two standard playing cards further comprising four different suits, the four different suits comprising hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs and further wherein each of the four different suits comprises thirteen cards numbered 2 through 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace, and a fifty-third card wherein the fifty-third card is a zero card wherein the zero card is one of combinable with a specific card of the thirteen numbered cards, combinable with a specific suit of the four different suits, not-combinable with a specific card of the thirteen numbered cards, and not combinable with a specific suit of the four different suits;
shuffling the playing cards into a new order;
providing each player of the two or more players at least five cards in a player hand; and
determining the player hand of the two or more players wherein the player hand is two or more cards;
wherein if the player hand comprises an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of the same suit, the player hand is a royal flush,
wherein if the player hand comprises five cards of the same suit in consecutive ranking, the player hand is a straight flush,
wherein if the player hand comprises four cards of the same rank, the player hand is a four of a kind,
wherein if the player hand comprises three of a kind and a pair, the player hand is a full house,
wherein if the player hand comprise five cards of the same suit but not in consecutive ranking the player hand is a flush,
wherein if the player hand comprise cards in consecutive ranking but not of a single suit the player hand is a straight,
wherein if the player hand comprises three cards of the same rank, the player hand is a three of a kind,
wherein if the player hand comprises two pairs of cards of the same rank, the player hand is a two pairs,
wherein if the player hand comprises two cards of the same rank, the player hand is a one pair.