A card game is played against a pay table, wherein a player receives a partial hand that is preferably completed by community cards, but may be completed by cards dealt directly to a hand or a combination of cards dealt directly to a hand and at least one community card or wild card. After placement of an ante wager, each player will have an opportunity to place a game wager before receiving another card for the player's hand (whether dealt directly to the player or as a community card revealed to all players). At least some or all game wagers may be an amount within a range of multiples of the player's ante wager, such as one times, two times, three times, four times, or five times the amount of the ante wager. The range of wagers may remain the same or vary with the number of dealt cards or community cards revealed to the players.

A method for playing a community card poker card game includes allowing the participants to either fold or place a first bet. The first bet is resolved based on a final card hand associated with the participant, and the combination of first bets comprises a main pot. After first ones of the community cards are revealed, the participants that folded are allowed to either continue to fold or to place a second bet. The second best is resolved based on a final card hand associated with the participant, and the combination of second bets comprises an auxiliary pot. Thereafter, the remaining community cards are revealed, and the main pot is resolved according to a rank of final card hands for those participants that made the first bet. Thereafter, the auxiliary pot is resolved according to a rank of final card hands for those participants that made the second bet.

A method and systems enable executing of game content in a player-versus-player(s) point count game using community playing cards or non-community playing cards. A target maximum point count is defined, initial playing card symbol hands of 1-2 playing card symbols is provided to each player position, and then an order defined sequence of cards is provided. A winner among the players has a final point count closest to the target maximum without exceeding it, and ties in final point counts are broken by a better hand having better poker rank or more total cards used in forming a player's final point count total hand. Wagering events with players placing value at risk in execution of the game may also be made.

A method for playing a hold 'em card game with two hands provides a variant to a standard hold 'em card game by dealing four hole cards to a player, with each set of hole cards being independently played, bet, raised, or folded in relation to the same community cards. An initial round of wagering occurs, followed by dealing four hole cards to each player. The hole cards are played independently of each other. There is another round of betting, before a turn and a river are also dealt. If the dealer's best of five hands exceeds a poker hand ranking of the player's, the player forfeits the wager. If the player's best of five hands exceeds the dealer's, the player receives an equal amount of units to the wager.

Systems, apparatuses and methods for increasing potential payout opportunities using multiple card indicia representing multiple cards. One embodiment involves determining whether any one or more of a plurality of cards of a poker game having multiple poker hands are to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia representing multiple cards, presenting the plurality of cards of the poker hands, including the one or more of the plurality of cards determined to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia, and identifying a plurality of resulting hands for each of the multiple poker hands that include a multiple card indicia, where each of the plurality of resulting hands includes a different subset of a total of the indicia of the other cards in the respective poker hand and any cards provided with multiple card indicia.

A dealing robot device with dual card shoes is provided in the present application. The dealing robot device comprises a machine robotic arm, an electric poker rack, a controller and dual card shoes. The controller sends a controlling instruction to regulate movements of the robotic arm or the electric poker rack with which operations such as dealing or recollecting poker cards is completed such that a time difference between two rounds of games played by two different groups of players is effectively saved by the dealing robot device with dual card shoes. Accordingly, the efficiency of an online reality poker game is promoted by the dealing robot device with dual card shoes in the present application.

Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for facilitating a poker game having additional award opportunities. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to include a display, a player interface, and a processor configured to deal a first poker hand and evaluate the first poker hand. The processor is further configured to deal at least one additional card to the first poker hand to create a second poker hand, and to then evaluate the second poker hand.

A method, system, and device are directed to a card game. In an optional embodiment, secondary identifiers are associated with playing cards. The secondary identifiers are selected to provide only partial information about a primary characteristic, such as value, suit, color, or the like, about the playing card. Optionally, the secondary identifiers are concealed from the player and are only perceivable through the use of a reader and display. A game is conducted according to its base game rules using the playing cards with secondary identifiers.

A computer-implemented platform and associated method for conducting a competitive poker-based event, for example, in the form of a league of teams each made up of individual team players, incorporates a unique and unconventional methodology of resetting competitor chip stack sizes prior to the commencement of each dealt hand, such that each player begins each new hand with an identical total chip stack unit value. Players may participate remotely via portable electronic devices. Player rankings are determined based upon a unique skill set including statistical variables such as match success rate, uncontested chips accrued, and equity quotient. Competitive matches incorporate a unique event format featuring predefined time intervals (i.e. Quarters) and a betting time clock limiting a competitor's time to act when action is on that player. Events may be broadcasted over the Internet as well as via a television network.

An electronic device or entertainment gaming machine comprising: at least one betting terminal having a software program or plurality of software programs that allow at least a second player to place a bet on a jackpot if a first player declines the right to place a bet on the jackpot, wherein the second player is at a betting terminal that is apart from the conventional casino table game and the first player is playing at a conventional casino table game and is granted a right of first refusal to place a bet on jackpot by virtue of the first player's bet on the conventional casino table game, wherein the outcome of the jackpot is determined according to a combination of cards or dice in the conventional casino table game.