Patent ID: 8523684

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a computing system configured to: determine a balance of a player account, receive an indication of a first bet amount for first wager in a card game, adjust a balance according to the bet amount, determine a first state of at least some used cards in a deck of physical cards that will be used to play the game, receive, from a card providing element, an indication of information describing a first physical card drawn from the at least some unused cards in the deck, in which a dealer removes the first physical card from the card providing element for use in the game, determine an identity of the first physical card drawn from the at least some unused cards in the deck, after determining the identity of the first physical card drawn from the at least some unused cards in the deck, facilitate an addition of a second card to the deck based on the identity of the first card, determine a statistic describing a second state of at least some remaining unused cards in the deck that is based on the first state without the first physical card, in response to determining the statistic, determine a betting opportunity to be offered in the game based on the statistic describing the second state of the at least some remaining unused cards in the deck, in response to determining the betting opportunity, present the betting opportunity to the player, receive an indication of a second bet amount for a second wager on the betting opportunity, adjust the balance based on the second bet amount, determine a first outcome of the first wager, determine a second outcome of a second wager, adjust the balance based on the first outcome, and adjust the balance based on the second outcome.