Patent ID: 7780512

Claim:
A system forming a slot machine game having the ability to allow multiple participants to personally and simultaneously attend the slot machine game system thereabout, comprising: plural participant video displays provided on an approximately planar game table and providing changeable visual data to at least one playing participant; slot symbols displayed on said plural participant video displays which vary during play of the slot machine game to include winning slot symbol groups and losing slot symbol groups; a single central game processor connected to the participant video displays for controlling said participant video displays to display said slot symbols assigned to playing participants; and wherein said slot symbols assigned to playing participants comprise separate participant symbol subsets, each participant symbol subset having a slot symbol group that the single central game processor can vary independently from participant symbol subsets assigned to other participants and wherein the slot symbols are associated with virtual playing cards displayed on the plural participant video displays in a virtual card game that is controlled by the single central processor and played simultaneously with the slot machine game.