A system for concurrent gaming comprises a gaming server and a client
computer connected to the gaming server by means of an open communication
network. The gaming server is instructable by the client to randomly
select multiple, concurrent hands of playing cards to a player in a turn
of a game of Caribbean Stud poker. The compositions of the multiple,
randomly selected concurrent hands is transmitted by the gaming server
along the communication network to the client computer where they are
displayed to the player, under program control as part of a simulation of
the game of Caribbean Stud poker. Gaming server also generates the gaming
server also randomly selects a hand associated with a dealer in the game,
the composition of the dealer's hand being also transmitted by the gaming
server to the client computer and displayed as part of the simulation.
The player then makes desired game play decisions, in turn, as a function
of each one of the, multiple concurrent hands and the dealer's hand.