Patent ID: 8287346

Claim:
An electronic device for playing hands of a card game according to rules thereof utilizing data representing a deck of N playing cards: a first data structure storing data representing each playing card of said deck; a processor, said processor configured to randomly arrange said playing card data into a random, serial order representing deck data; a video display; an interface configured for a player to make a wager and prompt play of the game; said processor, in response to prompting, configured to select and display at said display data from said first data structure representing a predetermined number of cards selected in order from said first data structure to define an initial holding; said processor completing said initial holding according to rules thereof by at least one of (1) replacing at least one card of the initial holding or (2) selecting additional cards, said processor configured to select and display, at said display, data representing each replacement or additional cards selected in order from said first data structure to define a final outcome for the hand of play and to deplete a constituency of said deck data of each replacement or additional cards; said processor configured to determine that at least one final outcome is eliminated from future rounds of the game played using the deck data as a result of said depletion; said processor configured, in response to the determination, to hide a display of the remaining constituency of the depleted playing card data; and said processor configured to determine if said final outcome is a winning or losing outcome and to issue an award for a winning combination.