Patent ID: 8550464
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming system, comprising: an input device operable to receive selections indicative of at least one of a set of house odds or a house advantage for at least one hand to be played by at least one player of a card game; and a playing card handling system comprising a playing card input receiver, a playing card output receiver, at least one playing card transport path between the playing card input receiver and the playing card output receiver, and at least a first intermediary playing card receiver interposed in the at least one playing card transport path between the playing card input receiver and the playing card output receiver, the first intermediary playing card receiver having a plurality of playing card receiving receptacles, the playing card handling system responsive to the selections received at the input device to provide the at least one hand of playing cards as subsets of playing cards, each subset of playing cards forming a hand of playing cards, where the playing cards forming the at least one hand correspond to at least one set of virtual playing card values pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the received selections indicative of the at least one of the set of house odds or the house advantage, wherein the at least one of the set of house odds or the house advantage includes corresponding different house odds or a different house advantage for a particular player position to which the subset of cards is to be dealt during a round of play than another player position to which a different subset of the subsets of playing cards is to be dealt during the same round of play.