CARD GAME WITH COUNTING

• US 20090179378A1
• Filed: 01/10/2008
• Published: 07/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: AMAITIS, LEE, Burman, Kevin, Gambhir, Manu
• Granted Patent: US 7,942,418 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/292
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/003 Blackjack; Twenty one
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00157 Casino or betting games horse races A63F3/00082
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

Various embodiments include determining a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck, and modifying the rules of a game based on the statistic.

Claims

1. A method of playing a card game, the method comprising:

determining a first value of a statistic describing a deck of cards;

determining a comparison between the first value and a threshold value; and

adjusting a rule of the card game based on the comparison.

3. The method of claim 1 in which the statistic represents a house edge associated with play of the card game.

4. The method of claim 1 in which adjusting the rule includes adjusting the rule to maintain a house edge associated with play of the card game.

5. The method of claim 1 in which the rule includes at least one of a rule controlling payouts for winning the game, a rule controlling which outcomes are winning outcomes, a rule controlling which outcomes are tie outcomes, a rule controlling the decisions available to a player, a rule controlling the actions of a dealer, a rule controlling the procedures of a game, a rule controlling the value of cards in the card game, and a rule controlling allowed bets.

6. The method of claim 5 in which the card game includes a blackjack game.

7. The method of claim 1, in which the rule includes a rule allowing at least one of discarded cards to be added to the deck and additional cards to be added to the deck.

2. The method of 1 in which the statistic represents the difference between the number of ten-value cards remaining in the deck and the number of cards remaining in the deck with point values of two through six.

8. A method of playing a card game, the method comprising:

storing information about actions taken by a plurality of players during play of a plurality of hands of the card game;

providing an indication of a current state of a hand of the card game; and

providing an indication of a statistic related to at least some of the actions taken by the plurality of players.

9. The method of claim 8 in which the statistic includes an indication of a percentage of times the plurality of players took a particular action when in a state similar to the current state.

10. The method of claim 9 in which the statistic includes on indication of a percentage of times the particular action resulted in a winning hand.

11. The method of claim 8 in which the statistic is based on a subset of the plurality of players that at least one of have a desired demographic characteristic and are within a desired group of people.

12. The method of claim 8 in which the card game includes black jack.

13. A method of playing a card game, the method comprising:

dealing a plurality of hands of the card game from a same-ordered deck of cards;

determining when to shuffle the deck of cards based on a number of cards dealt when dealing the plurality of hands of the card game; and

shuffling the deck in accordance with the determination to reorder the deck of cards.

14. The method of claim 13, in which determining when to shuffle the deck of cards includes determining if a card indicating that the deck should be shuffled was drawn.

15. The method of claim 14, in which the card indicating that the deck should be shuffled is a virtual card.

16. The method of claim 14 further comprising, inserting the card indicating that the deck should be shuffled into the deck at an at least partially random location.

17. The method of claim 13, in which determining when to shuffle the deck of cards includes determining if a threshold number of cards have been dealt.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising at least partially randomly determining the threshold number.

19. The method of claim 13, in which the card game includes blackjack.

20. A method of playing a card game, the method comprising:

providing an indication of a current state of a hand of the card game;

receiving a request to view a card that is not yet dealt from a deck of the card game; and

providing an indication of the value of the card without dealing the card.

21. The method of claim 20, in which the card is not the top card of the deck.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising dealing the card after receiving an additional request to deal the card.

23. The method of claim 20, in which the card game includes blackjack.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising removing the card from play.