Patent ID: 7806408

Claim:
A system for playing a card game comprising: a table ( 800 ); a plurality of player positions at the table; a display screen ( 804 ) located at each player position for viewing by a player in front of the display screen; at least one computer ( 822 ) communicating with each display screen ( 804 ), with at least one computer being programmed to carry out the card game using card representations of playing cards stored in a memory, the program enabling a player at a player position at the table to play the card game against at least one other player at another of the player positions at the table, a player remaining in the game being defined as an active player, the at least one computer being programmed for performing the steps comprising: a) displaying to each active player the same one or more randomly dealt community cards from a same set of playing cards, the one or more community cards being usable by all players in forming a card hand, all community cards in the card game being randomly dealt before any cards are dealt to individual players, the set of playing cards being a representation of a physical set of playing cards, each active player's display screen ( 804 ) displaying at least the same portion of the set of playing cards face up to create a displayed set of playing cards; b) detecting a selection by each active player a desired card of a particular rank and suit from the displayed set of playing cards excluding the randomly dealt cards in step (a); c) for each active player, determining if the card selected by that player is the same as a card selected by another player in a current round or the same as a card dealt to another player in a previous round; d) if a first player chose the same card as another player, as determined in step (c), dealing the first player a null card that has no value in forming a card hand, wherein the null card is displayed on the first player's display screen ( 804 ) along with the rank and suit of the corresponding card the first player selected; e) if the first player did not choose the same card as another player, as determined in step (c), dealing the first player the card that the first player selected, wherein, each active player's display screen ( 804 ) displays the order and identity of every card selected by that player; f) repeating steps b-e if there is more than one active player after a round of play, until the same predetermined number of cards have been dealt to each active player; and g) controlling the display screen ( 804 ) to identify the active player with the best hand of cards, according to predetermined rules of play.