Patent ID: 7494126

Claim:
A method of operating a card-playing tournament, comprising: providing at least one physical deck of cards; identifying a plurality of participants to compete in the tournament, wherein the participants are divided into a plurality of two-person teams; performing a first tournament segment in which the plurality of participants compete playing a first type of card game and forming a first ranking of the plurality of two-person teams based on individual results of the first type of card game, wherein the first type of card game is selected from poker and rummy; performing a second tournament segment in which the plurality of participants compete playing a second type of card game and forming a second ranking of the plurality of two-person teams based on team results of the second type of card game, wherein the second type of card game is bridge and the participants are divided into four person groups, wherein members of each two person team are grouped together to play at least one round of bridge; and deriving a final ranking of the plurality of two-person teams based on at least a combination of the first and second rankings.