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7591728 Online gaming system configured for remote user interaction  
The present invention provides systems and methods relating to a physical gaming system that may host remote players. According to one embodiment of the invention, physical cards are utilized in a...
7556561 Electronic player interaction area with player customer interaction features  
A system and method for providing an electronic poker game of the present invention includes a table having a table top with a playing surface and a plurality of electronic player interaction areas...
7537216 Method, apparatus and article for computational sequence generation and playing card distribution  
A computationally generated playing card sequence (e.g., pseudo-random, non pseudo-random, or partially pseudo-random) allows shuffled distribution of playing cards. Playing cards may be organized...
7523937 Device for use in playing card handling system  
A playing card handling system includes a pivoting pair of jaws to retrieve playing cards from a playing card receiver, for example a carousel. The rotational or angular velocity of a picker may be...
7413191 Device and method for forming and delivering hands from randomly arranged decks of playing cards  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
7407438 Modular dealing shoe for casino table card games  
A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of blackjack is disclosed. The shoe may comprise a) an area for receiving a first set of playing cards useful in the...
7341510 Casino poker game table that implements play of a casino table poker game  
An apparatus and a method of play in the practice of the present invention that are described below. An apparatus supporting the play of a casino table card game according to the present invention...
7300056 System and methods for randomizing playing instruments for use in online gaming  
Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments. According to one aspect of...
7261294 Playing card shuffler with differential hand count capability  
A programmable card handling machine with a display and appropriate inputs for adjusting the machine to any of a number of games comprises inputs including a number of cards per hand selector, a...
7222852 Method, apparatus and article employing multiple machine-readable indicia on playing cards  
A stacked set of playing cards are supported to expose an information bearing portion bearing a first machine-readable indicia and an information bearing portion bearing a second machine-readable...
7137627 Device and method for continuously shuffling and monitoring cards  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or...
7073791 Hand forming shuffler with on demand hand delivery  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
7059602 Card shuffler with staging area for collecting groups of cards  
A method and apparatus delivers subsets of randomly mixed playing cards from a first group of playing cards. At least one first group of multiple playing cards is provided to a playing card...
6964612 Method, apparatus and article for evaluating card games, such as blackjack  
A system reads an identifier from a hand of cards to identify the cards. For example, the system can read an identifier from a pair of cards forming the initial hand in blackjack, where the one...
6886829 Image capturing card shuffler  
The present invention features a playing card shuffling device, which through the use of a small image capturing means, captures an image of the face value of each card and stores the image in...
6676127 Collating and sorting apparatus  
A card handling device having either a vertical stack of compartments or a carousel of compartments is used to receive individual cards from a card supply. The compartments may be moved relative to...
6588750 Device and method for forming hands of randomly arranged decks of cards  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
6403908 Automated method and apparatus for playing card sequencing, with optional defect detection  
An automated method and apparatus for sequencing and/or inspecting decks of playing cards is presented. The method and apparatus utilizes pattern recognition technology or other image comparison...
6361044 Card dealer for a table game  
A top of a card table with a card dispensing hole therethrough and an arcuate edge is covered by a transparent dome shaped cover. A dealer position is centrally located on the table top. A...
6250632 Automatic card sorter  
An apparatus and method for sorting cards into a predetermined sequence. One embodiment provides a deck holding area in which cards are held for presenting a card to a read head for reading the...
5989122 Apparatus and process for verifying, sorting, and randomizing sets of playing cards and process for playing card games  
The invention relates to an apparatus for randomizing and verifying sets of playing cards. Also, the invention relates to a processing providing such an apparatus; feeding to the apparatus one or...
5431399 Card shuffling and dealing apparatus  
A playing card distribution device with microprocessor and scanning circuits. The device has an enclosure for holding a deck of cards, a displacement means powered by a motor with one or more...
5397133 System for playing card games remotely  
A system for playing card games remotely includes both a multimedia communication system that allows players located remotely from each other to see and hear each other, and a "card toaster" and...
5240140 Card dispenser  
A card dispenser (32) comprising a body (33) having a compartment (38) for accommodating a stack of cards (39) and at least one outlet (43) through which cards (39) accommodated in the compartment...
5121921 Card dealing and sorting apparatus and method  
A card dealing and sorting apparatus adapted for use with a conventional deck of cards. The apparatus includes a frame onto which is movably mounted a card holding device. The card holding device...
5067713 Coded playing cards and apparatus for dealing a set of cards  
A deck of cards is coded by marking each card on its face with a bar code which is essentially invisible to the human eye, but can be read by a detector matched to the source of wavelength of the...
4951950 Manual playing card dealing appliance for the production of programmed deals  
The device comprises a box receiving the deck of cards to be dealt, upon which a cover presses. Rollers, driven in rotation by a motor reduction unit ensures partial exit of the lower card of the...
4822050 Device for reading and distributing cards, in particular playing cards  
The device comprises a container for receiving the pack of cards to be distributed, of which the movable bottom is formed by a carriage. This carriage comprises rollers which, when the carriage is...
4662637 Method of playing a card selection game  
A method of playing a card game in which desired cards are selected by players. Cards are first read and stored. Players select cards and then cards corresponding to the selected cards are...
4534562 Playing card coding system and apparatus for dealing coded cards  
Playing cards are marked with binary codes adjacent both side edges of the face of each card in a standard deck. The code includes a precode which signals a card reader to read the code in proper...
4159581 Device for instruction in the game of bridge and method of and device for dealing predetermined bridge hands  
A device and method for dealing predetermined bridge hands to facilitate the widespread use of competitive scoring commonly followed in duplicate or tournament bridge by using a conventional deck...
3899837 Educational apparatus  
A record for teaching a card game comprises a common carrier having a plurality of independent but time-interrelated commentaries which in use are played back individually to the members of a group...
3814436 PLAYING CARD DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS  
The disclosure is of an apparatus for enabling distribution of playing cards into predetermined groups, or "hands," for the game of Duplicate Bridge. The determination of distribution of the...
3768813 CARD GAME WITH PREDETERMINED HANDS  
Individual hands for a card game are predetermined and dealt to a player in a unitized form. Each hand has a base card or strip to which are attached removable tabs of a uniform number for each...
3751041 METHOD OF UTILIZING STANDARDIZED PUNCH CARDS AS PUNCH CODED AND VISUALLY MARKED PLAYING CARDS  
The method of formation of playing cards from a standardized codable card which is readable with automated data processing equipment such that the playing cards may be more readily sorted and/or...
3743294 BRIDGE HAND DEALING SYSTEM  
A bridge system including a sealed book of reproduced newspaper bridge columns; punched master cards chosen at random for successive play each containing dealing identification for one complete...
3731936 COMPETITION BRIDGE CARDS  
A deck of playing cards having the back side of each card coded by means of a plurality of dots. The pattern of dots is identical on each card but is longitudinally and/or laterally displaced by a...
3731399 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BRIDGE INSTRUCTION  
This disclosure described an instructional device and method for teaching the proper bidding and opening leads in the game of bridge. The device includes a set of four bidding charts, e.g., on...
3709501 METHOD OF DEALING PREDETERMINED HANDS  
A method of dealing predetermined bridge hands is described in which the predetermined hands are obtained by performing an operational sequence of card rearrangements (S - 1 , the inverse of S,...
3690670 CARD SORTING DEVICE  
Stacked cards may be sorted by providing uniquely located identifying holes in each card and a movable element with tabs that are able to engage selected holes in a card to remove the card from a...
3679876 CARD DECK CHECKER  
This invention provides a means for determining if the individual punched cards in a deck of punched cards are in proper sequence, if the deck is complete, and if the deck contains strange and...
3550944 ONE TABLE DUPLICATE BRIDGE  
3529829 PLAYING CARD DISTRIBUTION DEVICE  
3489907 RADIATION SENSITIVE CARD DEALING APPARATUS USING DIGITAL CODE  
3377070 Selective card distributing device  
3377069 Magnetically operative selective card distributing device  
3312473 Card selecting and dealing machine  
3222071 Prearranged hand playing card dealing apparatus  
3209471 Computer  
3167371 Selector index  
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