Abstract: A method provides a bonus component to a table game involving one or more players. The method involves each player wishing to participate in bonus play first indicating participation in the table game, then wagering a game token on one or more of a number of predetermined card compositions. The game commences and each player is dealt a hand of game playing cards. If any players' hand of game playing cards includes a one of the number of predetermined card compositions, corresponding to a wagered bonus, the player making the wager wins the wager. A game table, having a dealer station and a number of player stations, is structured to provide acceptance of wagers. The game table includes, at each player station, apparatus forming a wager-receiving recess for accepting a wager--typically in the form of a token. A sliding cover is movable between a first position that exposes the recess, and a second position that inhibits further wagering by blocking the recess.

Abstract: A method of wagering on an competitive event pitting at least two competitors against one another includes providing initial odds as an indication of one of the two participants winning the event, and establishing a betting time period preceding the event that comprises a number of successive wagering intervals, during each of which wagers on an outcome of the event are taken. For each of the successive wagering intervals the initial odds are recalculated based upon all wagers taken up to the point of the recalculation. Each wager placed is recorded by a wager ticket the carries indicia of the one of the successive wagering intervals during which the wager was taken so that payout on the wager, in the event a correct decision on the outcome of the event was made, as indicated by the wager ticket, will be based upon the odds recalculated during the one of the successive wagering time periods during which the wager was taken.