Patent ID: 7771269

Claim:
An apparatus forming a gambling gaming system for playing one or more games involving multiple participants, comprising: at least one display for displaying virtual symbols assigned to said participants; at least one processor for processing and assigning virtual symbols to said participants, and for providing information for displaying on said at least one display said virtual symbols so assigned as is appropriate according to the game or games being played; wherein said at least one processor assigns multiple complete participant symbol sets of the virtual symbols, including at least one complete participant symbol set to each participant; wherein for each individual round of a game being played, a participant is assigned virtual symbols only from the complete participant symbol set assigned to the participant and is assigned no virtual symbols from a symbol set first assigned to a dealer or another participant; and wherein the complete participant symbol sets are functionally isolated from each other and from one or more symbol sets assigned to the dealer in order to secure a game outcome of each participant from being affected by an action of another participant.