Patent ID: 7918723

Claim:
A method of playing a live baccarat game which allows a player to place a bet on a live baccarat game at a baccarat table and a separate jackpot game, comprising: dealing cards to a player hand and a bank hand according to a set of conventional baccarat rules, allowing at least a first player to place a bet on a live baccarat game at a baccarat table, allowing a second player to place a separate jackpot wager bet on a jackpot game via a betting terminal connected to a local area network (LAN) during the live baccarat game where the second player is the same as or different from the first player, determining the outcome of the live baccarat game according to the set of conventional baccarat rules, conventional baccarat rules not being determined according to the suit of cards, and determining the outcome of the separate jackpot game according to a combination of cards that comprises at least one zero-point card wherein the outcome of the separate jackpot game is determined according to the first five cards drawn and the suit of the first five cards drawn in a first live baccarat game and the separate jackpot wager bet is accepted at at least two live baccarat game tables contributing to one jackpot pool having a payout for each bet unit equal to the jackpot pool divided by the total number of bet units.