Patent ID: 7255351

Claim:
A multi-player platform that provides multiple player positions for live players to engage in an underlying card game with an auxiliary card game, the system providing a virtual dealer and virtual cards, the platform comprising at least two player positions that enable live players to place wagers on the underlying card game, a display system for showing a virtual dealer, a display system for showing the virtual cards used in play of the underlying card game, and a processor that contains the rules of the underlying card game, the processor enabling play for each player on the underlying card game according to the following rules: placing at least one wager on the underlying card game; optionally placing a wager on the auxiliary card game; dealing a first number of cards to a player; dealing a second number of cards to the dealer; displaying at least one of the player's cards; displaying at least one of the dealer's cards; wherein if at least one of the displayed player's cards or at least one of the displayed dealer's cards is a card of a specific predetermined rank, paying a player who has placed the optional wager for the occurrence of the at least one card of a specific predetermined rank being displayed in either the exposed card(s) of the dealer's hand and/or the player's hand; and then continuing deal of cards according to the rules of the underlying game and continuing play of the underlying game.