Patent ID: 8128091

Claim:
A method of playing a casino card game, comprising: receiving at least one ante wager from a player to participate in a game of chance; automatically forming using an electronic shuffler and dealing using a human dealer an initial player hand and an initial dealer hands using physical cards, wherein a composition of the initial dealer hand is known to an electronic processor prior to delivery; wherein at least one of the cards in the initial dealer hand is dealt face down; allowing a player to view the initial player hand; selecting, using the electronic processor, a player instruction using the composition of the initial dealer hand and a lookup table of possible dealer hands and corresponding instructions, wherein the corresponding instructions are assigned a relative weight, wherein the selecting incorporates randomness; displaying, on an electronic output device the player instruction to the player, the player instruction generally indicating a strength of the composition of the initial dealer hand without the human dealer's actual knowledge of the composition of the initial dealer hand; allowing the player to choose to fold or make a consistent play bet that is consistent with the player instruction; receiving the consistent play bet from the player; revealing a revealed dealer hand which comprises the initial dealer hand; and comparing a final player hand which comprises the initial player hand to the revealed dealer hand; and resolving the consistent play bet based on the comparing.