Patent ID: 8323084

Claim:
A gaming system for executing a card game, the gaming system comprising: a plurality of stations; a control unit that transmits and receives information relating to a game with the plurality of stations, and controls advancement of the game; a game portion that has a flat surface and has a plurality of card placement areas, a card used for the card game being placed on each of the plurality of card placement areas, the plurality of card placement areas constituting a required number of opposing groups for determining winning or losing of the game, and each of the opposing groups including two or more card placement areas among the plurality of card placement areas; and an image input device that captures an image of at least one side of the card being placed on any of the plurality of card placement areas, and that transmits image data thus captured to the control unit, wherein the game portion includes a plurality of indicators that correspond to the plurality of card placement areas, respectively, each of the plurality of indicators being associated with only one of the plurality of card placement areas, and wherein the control unit includes an instructional device that gives an instruction relating to advancement of the game to a dealer, first memory that stores a game advancement program relating to the advancement of the game, and a controller that executes processing of: (a) activating the indicator that corresponds to a card placement area on which a current card is to be placed among the plurality of card placement areas, based on the game advancement program; (b) receiving the image data that is captured by the image input device; (c) calculating a score represented by the current card based on the image data; (d) determining whether to further place a next card in any of the plurality of card placement areas based on the score calculated in the processing of (c); (e) activating the indicator that corresponds to a card placement area in which the next card is to be placed among the plurality of card placement areas based on the game advancement program, in a case where it is determined to further place the card in the processing of (d); (f) repeating the processing of (b) to (e) for a predetermined number of times and determining winning or losing of the game in a case where it is determined not to further place the card in the processing of (d); and (g) displaying a result of the game on the instructional device based on the processing of (f).