Patent ID: 8210920

Claim:
A method of playing a live baccarat game which allows a player to bet a separate bet on a separate jackpot game, comprising: dealing cards to a player hand and a bank hand according to a set of conventional baccarat rules; allowing at least a first player to place a bet at a betting terminal on the live baccarat game, allowing at least a second player to place a bet at a betting terminal on a separate jackpot game to provide a jackpot bet, wherein the second player is the same as or different from the first player, determining a winning outcome of the live baccarat game according to the set of conventional baccarat rules, determining a winning outcome of the separate jackpot game by a control unit according to a combination of cards that comprises at least one zero-point cards, the at least one zero-point cards being drawn in the live baccarat game as at least one of 10, J, Q or K, and wherein the separate jackpot game has a jackpot pool with an initial contribution from a banker associated with the live baccarat game, a certain predetermined percentage of the jackpot bet is contributed to the jackpot pool, a certain predetermined percentage of the jackpot bet is collected by the banker and a certain predetermined percentage of the jackpot bet is accumulated as seed for a subsequent jackpot game.