Patent ID: 8152617

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a card-game table comprising visually defined regions on a surface of the card-game table to accommodate one or more card hands of each of one or more participants in addition to one or more separate card hands of a house entity; an analysis system associated with the card table, wherein the analysis system is configured to perform the following: receive bet data indicative of bets placed by the one or more participants; determine whether to deal an initial participant player hand, an initial participant bank hand, or both, to each of the participants based on the received bet data; receive card data comprising a value associated with each card that is dealt to the participants and to an initial house entity player hand and an initial house entity bank hand; process the received card data to calculate scores and odds relating to any initial participant player hands or initial participant bank hands that were dealt, plus the house entity initial player hand and the house entity initial bank hand, in accordance with the scoring and odds associated with a game of baccarat; and generate an output signal indicative of the calculated scores and odds; and a display device in communication with the analysis system to receive the generated output signal and display the received output signal as at least a visual indication of the calculated scores and odds.