Method for Playing a Card Game, In Particular Black Jack (Variants) and Gaming Equipment for Playing Said Game

Abstract

Equipment for playing a card game, in particular Black Jack, includes a playing table provided with a cover divided into sectors for players and a dealer playing place, a unit for identifying and recording the value symbols of the cards, a game monitoring system provided with a unit for detecting the presence of objects on the table, units for controlling bets of the players arranged in each player sector, game control units arranged in each player sector, a credit control unit arranged at the dealer playing place, a unit for visualizing the game control orders of the players arranged at the dealer playing place, a computer which is connected to individual functional units by means of wire or wireless communication elements and is provided with an electronic data processing system, a device for displaying data items processed by the computer, and an information storage system. The gaming equipment also includes a unit for simultaneously transmitting the card value information to the game control unit of each player and to a unit for forming a common order to the dealer.

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       10 . Method of playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack in which
 dealer shuffles a deck(s) of playing cards before the beginning of the game and places the said cards in the card shoe face down;   all players at the gaming table place compulsory bets for the game of Black Jack;   the dealer draws cards for each player and himself;   each player makes decision in accordance with the rules of Black Jack—stand, request another card, double down, split,—until all players have lost right to obtain more cards;   values of the first two cards and all additional cards, received by each player, are added up in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   the dealer stands or draws more cards for himself in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   values of the cards, received by the dealer, are added up;   the dealer plays with each player in turn, comparing the player's hand and the dealer's hand;   if the total value of a player's hand is higher than the total value of the dealer's hand, the player is paid the win in accordance with the rules of Black Jack; if the total value of a player's hand is lower than the total value of the dealers hand, the player's bet goes to the bank; if the total value of a player's hand draws with the total value of the dealer's hand, it is push, the player retains his bet; which differs in that   after the dealer completed distribution of the first two cards to each of the players and himself, the players make decisions to stand, request another card, double down or split simultaneously;   after all the players, who have right to stand, request another card, double down or split, made their decisions to stand, request another card, double down or split, and at least one player decided to request another card, double down or split, the dealer draws a card from the card shoe, the said card is common for all the players.   
   
   
       11 . Method of playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack, in which
 dealer shuffles a deck(s) of playing cards before the beginning of the game and places the said cards in the card shoe face down;   all players at the gaming table place compulsory bets for the game of Black Jack;   the dealer draws cards for players and himself;   each player makes decision in accordance with the rules of Black Jack—stand, request another card, double down, split,—until all players lost right to obtain another card;   values of the first two cards and all additional cards, received by each player, are added up in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   the dealer stands or draws more cards for himself in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   values of the cards, received by the dealer, are added up;   the dealer plays with each player in turn, comparing the player's hand and the dealer's hand;   if the total value of a player's hand is higher than the total value of the dealer's hand, the player is paid the win in accordance with the rules of Black Jack; if the total value of a player's hand is lower than the total value of the dealers hand, the player's bet goes to the bank; if the total value of a player's hand draws with the total value of the dealer's hand, it is push, the player retains his bet;   
     which differs in that
   the first and the third cards, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe after the players placed their bets, are common for all players;   values of the said first and third cards are added up and the total value is common for all the players;   each player in turn makes decision about next steps in the game;   the dealer plays with each player in turn, drawing more cards for each player individually if the player's decision requires the dealer to do so;   for each player the said total value of the said first and the said third cards drawn by the dealer from the card shoe, the said total value being common for all the players, is added up to the values of individually obtained cards in accordance with the rules of Black Jack.   
 
   
   
       12 . Method of playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack, in which
 dealer shuffles a deck(s) of playing cards before the beginning of the game and places the said cards in the card shoe face down;   all players at the gaming table place compulsory bets for the game of Black Jack;   any of the players can place additional bet if wishes to do so;   the dealer draws cards for players and himself;   each player makes decision in accordance with the rules of Black Jack—stand, request another card, double down, split,—until all players have lost right to obtain another card;   values of the first two cards and all additional cards, received by each player, are added up in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   the dealer stands or draws more cards for himself in accordance with the rules of Black Jack;   values of the cards, received by the dealer, are added up;   the dealer plays with each player in turn, comparing the player's hand and the dealer's hand;   if the total value of a player's hand is higher than the total value of the dealer's hand, the player is paid the win in accordance with the rules of Black Jack; if the total value of a player's hand is lower than the total value of the dealers hand, the player's bet goes to the bank; if the total value of a player's hand draws with the total value of the dealer's hand, it is push, the player retains his bet;   
     the said method differs in that
   the first and the third cards, drawn by the dealer from the cards shoe after the players placed their bets, are common for all the players;   values of the said first and third cards are added up and the total value is common for all players;   all players who have right to receive another card in accordance with the rules of Black Jack simultaneously make decisions about their next steps in the game;   after all players, who have the right to stand, request another card, double down or split in accordance with the rules of Black Jack, made their decisions and at least one player decided to request another card, double down or split, the dealer draws a card from the card shoe, the said card is common for all the players, who's decision requires additional card;   for each player the values of the first and third cards drawn by the dealer from the card shoe and values of all following cards, requested by the player are added up in accordance with the rules of black Jack.   
 
   
   
       13 . Method of playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack, as described in  claim 10 , which differs in that
 every consecutive card, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe after all players made decisions about their next steps in the game, is common for all players who made decision to request another card, double down or split;   every card, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe after all players made decisions about their next steps in the game, will be counted as the dealer's hand next card, provided that the total value of the dealer's hand does not exceed  17 , for all the players, who made decisions to stand.   
   
   
       14 . Method of playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack, as described in  claim 12 , which differs in that
 every consecutive card, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe after all players made decisions about their next steps in the game, is common for all players who made decision to request another card, double down or split;   every card, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe after all players made decisions about their next steps in the game, will be counted as the dealer's hand next card, provided that the total value of the dealer's hand does not exceed  17 , for all the players, who made decisions to stand.   
   
   
       15 . Method of playing card game as described in  claim 12  which differs in that a player can place additional bet for the game of Baccarat, the said game is played as follows:
 the players' initial two cards hand and the dealer's initial two cards hand for Baccarat are as in the main game of Black Jack;   if in accordance with the rules of Baccarat a third card is required for the players' hand or the dealer's hand, the said required third card will be the fifth card, drawn by the dealer from the card shoe;   if in accordance with the rules of Baccarat a third card is required for the players' hand and a third card is required for the dealer's hand, it will be respectively the fifth and the sixth cards drawn by the dealer from the card shoe.   
   
   
       16 . Method of playing card games as described in  claim 12 , which differs in that the time allocated to the players for decision making is limited. 
   
   
       17 . Method of playing card games as described in  claim 13 , which differs in that the time allocated to the players for decision making is limited. 
   
   
       18 . Method of playing card games as described in  claim 14 , which differs in that the time allocated to the players for decision making is limited. 
   
   
       19 . Method of playing card games as described in  claim 15  which differs in that the time allocated to the players for decision making is limited. 
   
   
       20 . Gaming equipment for playing card game, in particular the game of Black Jack, comprising:
 gaming table with cloth provided with markings, designating player zones, dealer zone and areas for placing playing cards face up;   card shoe for storing and distributing cards, cards are drawn from the card shoe face up, the said card shoe is equipped with optical electronic sensor for detecting cards' movements and card value imprint recognition and registration unit for recognition and registration of the values of cards drawn from the card shoe;   monitoring system of the game run, provided with object's presence on the table recognition unit;   player bet control units, provided with zones for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run, the said player bet control units are positioned correspondingly in each player zone;   player's game control units, provided with zones for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run, the said player's game control units are positioned correspondingly in each player zone;   credit control unit, provided with zones for entering operating commands, the said credit control unit is positioned in the dealer zone;   players commands visualization unit, provided with zone for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run, the said players commands visualization unit is positioned in the dealer zone;   computer, connected to the functional units by means of wire or wireless communications, the said computer is equipped with programmed in accordance with the game rules electronic data processing system;   computer processed data visualization device;   information storage system, the inputs of the electronic data processing system are connected respectively to the outputs of:
 card value imprint recognition and registration unit for recognition and registration of the values of cards drawn from the card shoe face down, 
 object's presence on the table recognition unit; 
 computer, 
 player bet control units, 
 credit control unit; 
   inputs of the computer are connected correspondingly to the outputs of the electronic data processing system and information storage system;   inputs of the player bet control units are connected correspondingly to the output of the electronic data processing system;   input of the credit control unit is connected correspondingly to the output of the electronic data processing system;   input of the players commands visualization unit is connected correspondingly to the output of the electronic data processing system;   input of the information storage system is connected correspondingly to the output of the computer; input of the computer processed data visualization device is connected correspondingly to the output of the computer; the said gaming equipment differs in that it additionally contains
 parallel transmission of information unit for transmitting information about value of the card drawn by the dealer from the card shoe to the player game control units of all players, who have right to obtain the said card; 
 collective command formation unit for formation of collective command of the players to the dealer; 
 input of the parallel transmission of information unit is connected correspondingly to the output of the electronic data processing system; 
 output of the parallel transmission of information unit is connected correspondingly to the inputs of each of the player game control units; 
 input of the collective command formation unit is connected correspondingly to the outputs of each of the player game control units; 
 output of the collective command formation unit is connected correspondingly to the input of the electronic data processing system. 
   
   
   
       21 . Gaming equipment for playing card game as in  claim 20 , which differs in that it additionally comprises timers limiting length of time available to the players for making a decision, the said timers are installed in player bet control units and player game control units. 
   
   
       22 . Gaming equipment for playing card game as in  claim 20 , which differs in that it additionally comprises one or more automated gaming tables where each player's sector is equipped with:
 player's bet control unit with zones for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run,   game control unit with zones for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run,   automated credit control units with zones for entering operating commands and zone for displaying information about the game run, and   the outputs of the player bet control units, the game control units and automated credit control units installed on the automated tables are connected correspondingly to the inputs of the electronic data processing system, herein the outputs of the game control units are connected to the inputs of the electronic data processing system via collective command formation unit,   the inputs of the player bet control units, the game control units and automated credit control units are connected correspondingly to the outputs of the electronic data processing system, herein the inputs of the game control units are connected to the outputs of the electronic data processing system via parallel transmission of information unit.