Patent ID: 7686681

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: an input device operable to receive selections indicative of at least one of a set of house odds or a house advantage for at least one hand to be played by at least one player of a card game, wherein the at least one of the set of house odds or the house advantage is selectable based on the selections input by the at least one player; and a playing card printing system including at least one head operable to form playing card markings on playing card media, the playing card printing system communicatively coupled to receive a number of signals based on the selections received at the input device and the playing card printing system responsive to the selections received at the input device to provide the at least one hand of physical playing cards, where the physical playing cards forming the at least one hand of physical playing cards correspond to at least one sequence of virtual playing card values that are pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the at least one of the set of house odds or the house advantage which the selections received at the input device are indicative of.