Patent ID: 7637506

Claim:
A method for conducting a blackjack tournament that facilitates card counting, comprising: providing a pool of prize money for paying out to one or more winners of the tournament; providing a set of one ore more rules for playing rounds of blackjack at the tournament wherein the one or more rules are favorable to counting of cards by the players, the one or more rules including at least a rule that, for each round of play, all the cards played in the round of blackjack are revealed to all the players playing in the round, including the cards held by a player that busts during the round, and a rule providing players in the tournament with an option to purchase a current card counting report during play, wherein the card counting report comprises an index or score resulting from a systematic card counting method providing guidance to the player for play of the round; automatically generating current card counting reports which are available to the players during the course of play with a programmed computer; and conducting rounds of play of blackjack using the set of rules wherein during the rounds of play the players make wagers and receive winnings with chips provided by the proprietor of the tournament to the players.