Patent ID: 8074992

Claim:
An electronic gaming apparatus for playing a blackjack game comprising: a computer; a computer readable storage medium; a source of playing card values; wherein the computer is configured to execute instructions from the computer readable storage medium to perform the following operations after receipt of a main wager and a side wager from a player: obtaining two initial playing card values from the source of playing card values; allowing the player to choose between standing on the two initial playing card values or another option(s); completing the blackjack game which includes resolving the main wager; requiring, in order to trigger a winning payout for the side wager, that the player satisfy at least one winning condition in a set of predetermined winning condition(s), wherein a winning condition in the set of predetermined winning condition(s) is that the player chose to stand on the two initial playing card values and a point total of the two initial playing card values falls within a predetermined range and the player loses the main wager, and if the player did satisfy at least one winning condition in the set of predetermined winning condition(s) then paying the player based on the side wager and a fixed paytable; if the player chose to hit on the two initial playing card values then taking the side wager; and if the player did choose to stand on the two initial playing card values and if the player wins the main wager, then taking the side wager.