Method and game machine for playing multi-hand poker

A computer-implemented card game played between two computer devices in communication via a server, wherein the server randomly deals to each computer device a plurality of cards one at a time from a deck of cards comprising a 53-card deck, one of which has a designated value and can represent any suit during play to form multiple pairs of competing hands each having a predetermined number of cards wherein at least one of each player's hands is a semi-revealed hand some of whose cards are revealed and some hidden to an opponent. During dealing, the server places each successive card in one of the hands such that once placed the associated computer device cannot move the card to another hand and once a card is placed in a hand, the server cannot place a successive card in the same hand until all of the hands are equally populated.