Patent ID: 7736236

Claim:
A method of operating a card game evaluation system for evaluating card games, the method comprising: for each round of a card game having a plurality of players: automatically determining a sequence of a set of playing cards in a deck of playing cards by a processor of the card game evaluation system, prior to dealing any of the playing cards from the deck; for each player, generating a plurality of working solutions representing possible valid and invalid outcomes of each of the player's hands by the processor of the card game evaluation system, based at least in part on the determined sequence of the set of playing cards; and for each player, reducing the plurality of working solutions to a final solution representing a valid outcome of each of the player's hands by the processor of the card game evaluation system, based at least in part on identities of playing cards that have been discarded during the card game, wherein validity of each respective working solution is determined by the processor of the card game evaluation system using a comparison between a number of hit cards dealt in each respective working solution and a subsequent player's next hit card.