The method of the present invention involves a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt to a player. Player is then provided the option to interchange cards in these hands with cards in the deck. The player makes a wager to elect to play one or more sub-hands to be constructed from the two rows of cards dealt. In one version of the game, sub-hands are constructed column-by-column whereby in a first column, a player selects none or one of the cards from the first column of the at least two rows of dealt cards for entry into a first sub-hand. The process is repeated for further elected sub-hands whereby the selection process is independent in each sub-hand. Additional cards are dealt from the deck for non-selected positions in the elected sub-hands. The poker hand ranking of each sub-hand is determined.