Patent ID: 6651985
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
A system for playing a live card game involving a plurality of live participants, said live participants including at least one player and at least one dealer, said participants personally attending the card game about the system at a gaming table, comprising:at least one participant video display providing a plurality of changeable participant display images; virtual playing cards having playing card images which indicate the virtual playing cards dealt or otherwise assigned to the live participants; slot symbols which are associated with virtual playing cards in a manner which varies during play of the card game, said slot symbols being presented to participant so as to provide participant slot groups which vary between winning slot groups and losing slot groups when virtual playing cards and associated slot symbols are assigned to the live participants during play of the card game; at least one game processor for processing data to perform at least the following functions: providing game rules which at least partially administer play of the card game; defining a stack of virtual playing cards having one or more decks of virtual playing cards included therein for use in playing the card game; shuffling the stack of virtual playing cards to determine the order of virtual playing cards dealt or otherwise assigned to the participants; selecting slot symbols from a total set of slot symbols which are available for selection; associating slot symbols to virtual playing cards; dealing virtual playing cards to participants from the stack according to the game rules; instructing the participant video displays to display at least playing card images indicating the virtual playing cards assigned to a participant, said virtual playing cards being assigned to a participant to form the participant's card hand; displaying any participant slot symbols assigned to the participants during play of the card game; at least one dealer control which includes at least one dealer control sensor which is activated by the dealer to control action of the card game including at least dealing of virtual playing cards to the participants; whereby a participant may receive a jackpot in response to receiving a winning slot group, or may receive a payoff in response to a winning card hand defined by the virtual playing cards dealt to the participant.