Systems and methods for monitoring shuffled playing cards. A shuffled card ID is associated with the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards. Each card delivered by a card feeder from the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards is inspected. It is determined whether there is a defect in the arrangement of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards. Upon a condition that a shuffled deck of playing cards is determined to be defective, at least one of discarding the defective shuffled deck of playing cards or preventing a recurrence of a defect found within the defective shuffled deck of playing cards.

Systems and methods are provided for providing playing cards. An exemplary method may include retrieving data related to a selection of a set of numbers for bingo and determining matching bingo patterns on a predetermined number of cards from a library of bingo cards against the set of selected numbers. The method may further include selecting corresponding playing cards based on the matching bingo patterns on the predetermined number of cards and providing the corresponding playing cards for display. The exemplary method may be used to deal playing cards for poker using a set of selected numbers.

To bring the excitement to the people (majority, who are not experts in games), we present the examples, described here, for one person to be able to bet on and be part of the deal and excitement for a third party, as his agent, proxy, or shadow, to bet for him, or instead of him, or as if the first person was doing the game directly, or one betting for another, or one playing for another with the other person's money. That generates more excitement on the game or casino, with more participation, transactions, income, profit, loyalty, and repeat customers. This brings a lot of variations on the game, e.g., stock market model, or derivatives model, or hedge model. This can be applied to sports and table games or fantasy sports. This can be applied to online, real, mobile, fantasy, simulation, computer generated, human based, or casino games or settings.

Systems, apparatuses and methods for providing heightened anticipation in poker games and other gaming activities where game indicia locations track across poker deals or other gaming events. In a poker context, card positions of a current poker hand(s) may be randomly or otherwise identified, and those card positions of a subsequent poker hand(s) will be accorded some heightened value and/or other enrichment.

The present disclosure relates generally to electronic playing cards, each of the playing cards comprising opposing first and second planar playing card surfaces such that, when being viewed by the corresponding player, the first planar playing card surface faces the other players and the second planar playing card surface faces the corresponding player. The first and/or second planar playing card surface can comprise a digital display. A gaming system can assign an electronic playing card to each player in a card game and determine and provide to each of the electronic playing cards an assigned playing card parameter (e.g., card suit and rank) for depiction by a digital display of the respective playing card.

Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for monitoring card game activities at gaming tables, such as for example, counting the number of card hands at gaming tables. The devices may include a sensor array network to detect game events; a microcontroller for running logic level code for checking sensors of the sensors of the sensor array network for pre-defined thresholds defining the detected game events and in response generating game event data; and a connection cable for coupling to a server device for transmitting the game event data. Systems may connect client hardware devices with sensors for monitoring card game activities. A game monitoring server may collect, process and aggregate hand event data received from the client hardware devices to generate hand count data for gaming tables. A front end interface device may receive notifications relating to hand count data for provision to end user systems.

Various embodiments of the gaming systems and methods provide plays of a multi-hand poker game where extra hands can be added and/or where extra card duplications can be made.

Systems and methods for providing a wagering game associated with the game of Baccarat which includes generating game outcomes for one to N games in a single game session.

A bonus providing device, including a bonus providing element, distinct from underlying game play that enables a plurality of players unique benefits to an underlying game winning outcome or triggering outcome is provided. The bonus providing element provides indications of at least three individual random indicators, wherein at least two of the at least three individual random indicators are linear, each one of the plurality of players being associated with a player station, the player stations being divided into a plurality of groups, with a predetermined number of player stations being associated with each of the groups, The three individual random indicators including an identification of a randomly selected one of the groups, an identification of a randomly selected one of the player stations associated with the randomly selected one of the groups, and an identification of a randomly selected parameter associated with a bonus award.

An electronic table game (“ETG”) system in which a sequence of cards dealt by a common dealer is used to generate a real-time data stream of card identities communicated to a plurality of different player terminals, thereby allowing the different player terminals to provide different games utilizing the same card identities.