Patent ID: 8152619

Claim:
A method comprising: dealing, by a computing device, a first set of cards to a human player of a poker game; dealing, by the computing device, a second set of cards to a second player of the poker game, in which the second player includes an opponent of the human player; determining, by the computing device, based on a set of game rules and based on a first preliminary poker ranking of at least some of the first set of cards, a first action that must be taken by the human player to continue play of the poker game, in which the set of game rules associate each of a plurality of possible circumstances with a respective required action of a plurality of possible actions, in which each circumstance is defined by at least one of the first set of cards and the second set of cards, and in which the first action includes an action from the plurality of possible actions; facilitating, by the computing device, performance of the first action in the poker game by the human player; determining, by the computing device, based on the set of game rules and based on a second preliminary poker ranking of at least some of the second set of cards, a second action that must be taken by the second player to continue play of the poker game, in which the second action includes an action from the plurality of possible actions; facilitating, by the computing device, performance of the second action in the poker game by the second player; determining, by the computing device, a size of a pot based on the first action and based on the second action; determining, by the computing device, a first final poker ranking based on at least some of the first set of cards; determining, by the computing device, a second final poker ranking based on at least some of the second set of cards; determining, by the computing device, a winning player from amongst the human player and second player based on the first final poker ranking and based on the second final poker ranking; and awarding, by the computing device, an amount to the winning player, wherein the amount is based on the size of the pot.