Abstract: A computer networked tournament in a subscription and non-subscription system is presented. There is a multi-round blackjack tournament with elimination hands and periodic hands where players with the lowest chip or point total are eliminated from the game. In a home/portable edition implementation players conduct a card game tournament in venues outside of the traditional casino environment. There is broadcast on television of a tournament of winners from qualifying networked game tournaments, the television the broadcast being a final or pre-final game of a networked game tournament.