A card game monitor manages play of a game with a video feed of casino table game play. A dealer deals a game using a card-handling device that randomizes and dispenses cards, which may be grouped into sets of hands by the card-handling device. A card recognition system recognizes card information including rank and suit of each card dispensed by the card handling device while each card is under control of the card-handling device. A camera captures a video feed of casino table game play, which is transmitted to a computing device operated by a player. A control system receives the card information from the card recognition device and manages control of the game using hand information associated with players. Player action elections from the computing device are displayed to a dealer The player provides a player action through the computing device, which is used to facilitate play of the casino table game.

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting, storing, and retrieving information about the composition of present and past hands of cards in a casino table game. The method includes causing a card-handling device to substantially automatically generate a plurality of hands wherein each hand includes one or more cards. Card information is identified that includes a rank and a suit of each card as each card moves through the card-handling device. A play history is maintained of a card composition of more than one round wherein the card composition of each round includes the cards in each hand of each round. The card information of at least one hand from at least one round may be displayed.

A casino table game having a football motif is played on a standard table that resembles a blackjack table having six or seven betting positions around the same. Each betting position includes a symbol for a home team and a visiting team so that each player can place a bet on either. Additional side or bonus bets can also be made. The game is played with a standard deck of 52 cards with jokers. The table layout resembles a football field and includes spots for the dealer to place four cards for the home team and four cards for the visiting team. In the simplest form of the game, the team with the most points after adding up the four cards wins.

A method of playing a poker type and a gaming machine. In the game after a base wager is made, four cards are dealt to a player and a dealer. The player forms a two card hand from the four cards dealt to the player, and the dealer forms a two card hand from the four cards dealt to the dealer. The player then either folds or makes a call wager. If the dealer's two card hand is not a qualifying hand, the call wager is declared a push, and the player is paid even money on the ante wager if the player's hand is ranked higher than the dealer's. If the dealer's two card hand is a qualifying hand, then the player's ante wager and call wager are paid even money if the player's two-card hand outranks the dealer's two-card hand.

An apparatus for playing a card game, the apparatus including a plurality of playing cards and a gaming table 2, the gaming table 2 including a community area 12, a dealer area 10 and a player area 14.

Some embodiments include a game of poker in which player actions are fixed by game rules.

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.

A card game of chance includes a plurality of playing cards each having a value and a suit and a color, a playing surface having at least one player position and one dealer position. The player position includes a change-up card indicia, a first primary card indicia, and an ante indicia. The dealer position includes at least one dealer card indicia. A wager is placed in the ante indicia and a first primary card is dealt face down to the player on the first primary card indicia. A change card is dealt to the player face down on the change up card indicia. A dealer card is dealt face down to the dealer on the dealer card indicia. The first primary card of the player is exposed and the player makes prediction of whether the primary card or the change card is higher or lower than the dealer card. The value of the dealer card is exposed the player is declared a winner or loser based on whether their prediction is correct. If the player is declared a winner, they are awarded a first predetermined proportion of the ante wager if the player played the change card and awarding the player a second predetermined proportion of the ante if the player did not play the change card.

The present invention is a poker game which can be executed in a computer system or executed by a robot. This game includes a checked step, a private card dealing step, a public card dealing step, a first round comparing step, a second round comparing step and a final determination step. The player gets two private cards in the private card dealing step. The score of the two private cards is used to compare in the first round comparing step. The two private cards of player, one public card and the other two private cards of the computer (banker) are assembled and checked whether meet a special five card type in the second round comparing step.

A method of playing and presenting a game, such as at an electronic gaming device, offers players the opportunity for multi-tier wagering and side or proposition bets. In one embodiment a card game offers an ante, secondary, tertiary and quaternary wagering options on a player hand against a dealer hand and proposition bets on the player and/or dealer hands. The game may comprise a card game in which initial cards are dealt to each player and the dealer and then then community flop, river and turn cards are dealt, with each player and the dealer forming a best five card poker hand from seven cards.