Patent ID: 7255642

Claim:
A system for playing a live card game involving a plurality of live participants, said live participants including at least one player and at least one dealer, said participants personally attending the card game about the system at a gaming table, comprising: at least one participant video display providing a plurality of changeable participant display images; virtual playing cards; playing card images which indicate the nature of virtual playing cards dealt or otherwise assigned to the live participants; slot symbols which are associated with virtual playing cards in a manner which varies during play of the card game, said slot symbols being presented to the participants so as to provide participant slot groups which vary between winning slot groups and losing slot groups when virtual playing cards and associated slot symbols are assigned to the live participants during play of the card game; at least one game processor for processing data involving the virtual playing cards and slot symbols; at least one dealer control which includes at least one dealer control sensor which is activated by the dealer to control action of the card game including at least dealing of virtual playing cards to the participants; whereby a participant may receive a jackpot in response to receiving a winning slot group, or may receive a payoff in response to a winning card hand defined by the virtual playing cards dealt to the participant.