Some embodiments may relate to a game in which a house takes a rake as a fee for playing a game. A game may include a multiplayer baccarat game that may add a skill element. For example, a baccarat game may add the ability for player's to bluff, choose whether to request cards, raise, fold, and so on. Other example methods and apparatus are described. Some embodiments may include a rake version of Chinese poker. Some embodiments include an open face version of a card game. Some embodiments include a card game with a virtual player position that allows users to play in the virtual player position.

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, and splitting the hole cards into two sets of hole cards, 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 split into two sets of hole cards that 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.

Methods and apparatuses for including zero-value playing cards in various playing card games are disclosed. Wagering techniques, playing strategies, and other game play may be changed based on the inclusion of zero-value cards in various card games.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for obtaining sample images, and electronic devices. The method includes: acquiring images of stacked bodies, where the stacked bodies in different images have different item information, and the item information comprises: an attribute and a stacking mode of a stacked body; and taking an acquired image as a sample image when the acquired image meets an image quality condition.

In one implementation, an electronic five-card draw poker gaming system using common physical cards includes a plurality of physical playing cards; a scanner that is configured to identify each of the plurality of physical playing cards as they are dealt; a plurality of player computing equipment with graphical displays that are programmed to provide individualized gaming interfaces for a plurality of players; and a gaming computing system that is communicably connected to the scanner and the plurality of player computing equipment to determine five-card draw poker gaming outcomes for each of the plurality of players based on commonly dealt cards and player actions.

A casino wagering game based on the card game of Poker. In this novel casino wagering game, the player has an advantage over the dealer as the player is dealt four cards to make their best three card hand, while the dealer is dealt only three cards. The goal is to get as high of a hand as possible and beat the hand of the dealer. The player benefits can include the ability to receive bonus payouts on high ranking hands that beat dealer's as well as bonuses for high ranking hands that tie or lose to the dealer.

A side bonus is provided for a base wagering game, wherein the winning side bonus can vary from game to game. In a method of presenting and playing the base wagering game, a player places a game wager and optional a side bonus bet. A target side bonus winning outcome is selected for the base wagering game from a set of a plurality of side bonus winning outcomes and that target side bonus winning outcome is displayed to the player. The base wagering game is then presented to the player and the base wagering game outcome is determined, along with the outcome of the side bonus. Sets of winning side bonus outcomes may be stored in a table along with associated payouts, and an RNG may be used to select a target winning side bonus outcome from the table for each instance of the base wagering game.

Mechanism (which can include system, methods, and media) for removing a card from a gaming table are provided, the mechanisms comprising: detecting when a playing card is placed on a door on a table surface of a gaming table; and causing the door to automatically open downward when the playing card is detected as being placed on the door so that the playing card slides downward to a space below the table surface. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise controlling the opening of the door using a hardware processor, and optionally using stepper motor to control the opening of the door. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise generating a graphics version of the playing card; and presenting the graphics version of the playing card on a player's computer display after the playing card has slid below the table surface.

In a method and system for presenting a game, such as a table game having a base portion and at least one side bet feature, a single combined wager is received, such as at a first wagering location as detected by a wager input sensor, and the combined wager is allocated, such as by a table controller, to an ante required for the base portion of the game and to a side bet required to the side bet feature of the game. An allocated portion of the combined wager to the ante and side bet feature may be variable, such as based upon input of the operator.

The application relates to a card game utilizing chance in the draw of cards that provides wagering options with a range of payouts and allows for active player participation. Examples include (i) providing a playfield including a gaming layout adapted for location and/or placement of at least two playing card elements and a wagering layout having indicia representing at least two possible characteristics of the playing card elements, (ii) accepting placement of a wager through use of the wagering layout indicia to nominate one or more of the possible characteristics, (iii) drawing a first playing card element and nominating one of its characteristics as a determinant characteristic, (iv) sequentially drawing subsequent card elements to generate an outcome including the number of subsequent playing card elements drawn in an uninterrupted sequence having the same characteristic as the determinant characteristic, and (iv) settling the wager on the basis of the generated outcome.