Patent ID: 8357046

Claim:
A method of generating and presenting an alert about a previous play in an online card game provided by a server computer to a plurality of client computers via a network, said method comprising: a client computer of said plurality of client computers receiving a log that indicates said previous play was played by an opposing player in a hand selected from the group consisting of a current hand being played in said online card game and a previous hand that was played in said online card game prior to said current hand; based on said received log, said client computer determining said previous play is not valid according to a predetermined strategy for playing said online card game; during said current hand being played in said online card game and based on said determining said previous play is not valid, said client computer generating said alert, wherein said alert includes an indication that said opposing player made said previous play that is not valid according to said predetermined strategy; said client computer presenting said alert to a first player, wherein said presenting said alert includes notifying said first player that said opposing player made said previous play that is not valid according to said predetermined strategy, wherein said first player is playing against said opposing player in said current hand, and wherein a result of said presenting said alert is a play in said current hand by said first player based on said presented alert.