Patent ID: 8771078

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a card device comprising: a substrate having a front face and a back face; a display coupled to the front face of the substrate; and an element coupled to the substrate and configured to: receive an indication of a first card value; control the display to display the first card value; receive an indication of a second card value; receive an advertisement to display on the display; and control the display to replace the first card value with the second card value and to display the advertisement; in which the card device has a combined length, width, and height substantially similar to a playing card and has a combined structure that is flexible; and a server configured to: receive information identifying the advertisement; determine that the advertisement should be displayed on the card device based on a result of a hand of a game that includes the second card value and at least one other card value displayed on at least one other card device; determine the first card value; and determine the second card value.