A casino-based poker card game played with a conventional deck of cards and multiple rounds of betting, that provides each player with two face up cards and the house with two face down cards. Additionally, there are five exposed community cards that each player and the house can use in any combination of his/her two cards to form the best five-card poker hand. The player, or the house, having the highest five-card poker hand is the winner. This invention allows the house to participate in the poker game as a risk-bearing participant.