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 blackjack game provides a side bet that the cards dealt to form the dealer's hand will match one of a predetermined set of winning poker hands. A blackjack hand is dealt to the player and a dealer, wherein each hand comprises a plurality of cards. The outcome of the blackjack hand is determined according to blackjack rules. The cards in the dealer's hand are then arranged to form a poker hand. Furthermore, the dealer's poker hand may be modified using cards selected from the player's hand into the dealer's hand to form the poker hand. Modification can be by substitution or addition of cards from the player's hand. The player wins the side bet if the dealer's poker hand matches one of a set of predetermined poker hands.

A poker machine and a poker card collating method therefor. The poker machine includes the following. A card feeding device, includes a control disk being provided at the center of a panel, the control disk being driven up and down by means of a center lifting mechanism, and when the control disk is lifted, a card feeding port for placing cards being formed below the control disk. A card collating device, the center of a card collating base being provided with a center rotating disc driven to rotate by means of a rotating disc electric motor, includes an arc-shaped card collating channel for collating the cards being formed between the center rotating disc and a card collating channel outer side wall, and a plurality of conveying rollers being provided at the bottom of the arc-shaped card collating channel. A dealer includes a card storage box and a card dealing device.

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 seven-card wagering game includes a player and a dealer each receiving a seven-card hand after the player places an ante wager. A specialty deck may be used, which specialty deck may include five wild cards and twelve value cards (e.g., three through ace) in each of four suits. Each seven-card hand is formed into a two-card hand and a five-card hand that has a higher “flush ranking” than the two-card hand. A player's and dealer's respective five-card hands are compared while their respective two-card hands are compared to resolve at least the ante wager. The comparison also use “flush ranking.” By the flush ranking, rankings are determined and then compared based on the length of the longest flush; then the higher, non-matching, high-card value of the longest flush; then the length of the second-longest flush; then the higher, non-matching, high-card value of the second-longest flush; and so on.

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A method of playing and presenting a game offers player multiple betting options and card hand formation elections. In one embodiment, each player places an ante wager and may place one or more proposition bets. Each player and the dealer are dealt 5 playing cards. If a player does not fold, the player forms a player two card flush hand and a three card hand from their 5 cards. If a dealer's two card flush hand does not qualify, the player wins. Otherwise, the player's two card flush hand is compared to the dealer's two card flush hand. If the player wins, winnings may be paid at least in part based upon the player's three card hand. Winnings may also be paid for winning position bets, regardless of whether the player folded or not.

Methods of playing commission-free pai gow poker games are disclosed. The commission-free pai gow poker games have multiple features, including a novel push mechanise and a novel copy-fostering mechanism, that provide a gaming establishment with an adequate house edge without the need to charge a commission on player wins. The features of the commission-free pai gow poker games may be incorporated in one or more instruction sets or software configured in one or more mechanical devices and/or electronic devices. Furthermore, the features may be configured in one or more displays in communication with one or more servers as desired. Furthermore, the commission-free pai gow poker games may be offered in a non-gaming media environment as desired.

A system and method of shuffling decks of cards is disclosed including verifying that the shuffled deck of cards has the same number of cards as the deck of cards had had when a manual verification process was performed at the initiation of use of the deck of cards. Using the measured weight of the deck of cards after completion of shuffling, the number of cards in the shuffled deck of cards is verified. A cut card may be introduced to reduce the possibility of exposing the hole card to view. Two decks of cards may be used in sequence so that a first deck of cards is being used to play the game of cards while the second deck of cards is being shuffled and verified.

Automatic card shufflers may include a card input mechanism for inputting cards into the card shuffler, a card storage device for receiving cards from the card input mechanism and temporarily storing cards within the card shuffler, and a card output mechanism for outputting cards from the card shuffler. The automatic card shufflers may randomly select an internal compartment to be an overflow compartment for inserting cards when a failure of insertion of a card to a selected primary card position occurs.