The goal is to earn money by making specific poker hands using adjacent card blocks, such as three of a kind. Once these combinations are made, the involved cards disappear from the playfield. However, players also have to avoid running out of money or going six columns high, which will end the game.
Players can pause the game in a frozen state for up to 99 seconds, allowing them to study the playfield. The single-player mode features ten levels with increasing speed, while the two-player versus mode offers competition between players taking turns trying to take points from each other.