Patent ID: 8496508

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a computing device, a first set of cards for a human player in a game that includes at least one of a poker game and a blackjack game; determining, by the computing device, a second set of cards for an opponent of the human player in the game; determining, by the computing device, a first action that must be taken by the human player to continue play of the game based on game rules and at least one of i) a first poker characteristic of the first set of cards, ii) a first blackjack characteristic of the first set of cards, iii) a second poker characteristic of the second set of cards, and iv) a second blackjack characteristic of the second set of cards, in which the game rules associate each of a plurality of possible circumstances with a respective action, in which the first action includes at least one action from the plurality of possible actions; facilitating, by the computing device, performance of the first action in the game by the human player; determining, by the computing device, a second action that must be taken by the second player to continue play of the game based on the game rules and at least one of i) the first poker characteristic of the first set of cards, ii) the first blackjack characteristic of the first set of cards, iii) the second poker characteristic of the second set of cards, and iv) the second blackjack characteristic of the second set of cards, in which the second action includes an action from the plurality of possible actions; facilitating, by the computing device, performance of the second action in the game by the second player; determining, by the computing device, a winning player based on at least one of i) a first poker ranking that is based on at least one of the first set of cards, ii) a first blackjack ranking that is based on the at least one of the first set of cards, iii) a second poker ranking that is based on at least one of the second set of cards, iv) and a second blackjack ranking that is based on the at least one of the second set of cards; and facilitating, by the computing device, an award to the winning player.