Patent ID: 8286967

Claim:
A method for a Player to play an electronically implemented Blackjack card game against a House including a side wager, said game method comprising the steps of: providing a non-transitory computer readable medium coded with instructions and executed by a processor to perform the steps of: generating a visual representation of a game playing surface; generating a visual representation of a Dealer station and a Player station adjacent the playing surface; generating a visual representation of at least one deck of 52 standard playing cards, each card in the deck having a face bearing indicia with a corresponding number value 1-11; receiving from the Player a side wager; generating a visual representation of two standard six-sided dice, each side of each die bearing an indicia having a corresponding numeric value of 1-6; randomly selecting one side of each die; summing the dice value of the indicia on the randomly selected sides, the summed dice value comprising a number between 2-12, inclusive; automatically resolving the side wager in favor of the Player if the summed dice value is equal to the number 7 or 11; automatically resolving the side wager in favor of the House if the summed dice value is equal to the number 2, 3 or 12; if the summed dice value is equal to the number 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 or 10, then establishing the summed dice value as a Point; dealing the Player an opening hand consisting of two cards from the deck, arranging each card face up on the playing surface; dealing the Dealer an opening hand consisting of two cards from the deck, arranging one of the cards face up on the playing surface; resolving the side wager in favor of the Player if at least one face up card on the playing surface has a numerical value equal to the Point; and continuing play of the Blackjack card game according to the traditional rules of Blackjack.