Systems, methods and apparatus for providing and conducting a wagering game which includes receiving a wager; generating a random initial hand of playing cards for one or more players and a dealer; comparing the initial dealer hand with a qualifying preset criteria, wherein the qualifying preset criteria includes a specific rank which the initial dealer hand must achieve; and responsive to the satisfaction of the qualifying preset criteria, dividing each initial hand of cards into two sub-hands of a preset amount of cards for the one or more players and the dealer, wherein the two sub-hands for any of the one or more players and the dealer must have a different rank in the underlying game; and providing a payout corresponding with the underlying game wager received if the player's two sub-hands are of a higher rank than the dealer's corresponding two sub-hands.