Patent ID: 7048629

Claim:
An apparatus forming a gaming system for playing a live casino game involving a plurality of live players and at least one live dealer who attend the casino game together as live participants, comprising: a gaming table; at least one game processor for processing data to perform action of the game; a plurality of changeable electronic visual player displays mounted to the gaming table and arranged about the table for play by said live players; said player displays being controlled by said at least one game processor to provide changeable player display images therefrom; at least one dealer control for controlling play of the game; payline displays associated with each of the plurality of player display images for players engaged in the live casino game; said at least one game processor operating under at least partial control of said at least one dealer control to assign a plurality of virtual slot symbols to the payline displays for each player display engaged in the live casino game; awarding a prize to players who receive a winning slot symbol combination on a player's payline display from a pre-defined group of combined slot symbols contained on a payoff list programmed into said at least one game processor.