Card gaming machine

1. A card gaming machine comprising:

an extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of cards from a deck of playing cards having predetermined symbols drawn thereon;

a display unit configured to display an image of said plurality of cards being extracted by the extraction unit and dealt to a player hand as a group of cards in said player hand;

a control unit configured to produce an image effect on the display unit in response to a deal situation determined by the predetermined symbols drawn on the group of cards in said player hand, said deal situation being displayed as an image by the display unit, said image effect comprising a dealer character displayed at a center of said display unit throughout an operation of said card gaming machine, said dealer character providing animated responses on said display unit in response to said deal situation;

a storage unit storing a plurality of tables, said plurality of tables providing a relationship between said deal situation and said image effect, said control unit using said relationship to determine said image effect to be produced on said display unit in response to a determination of said deal situation, said plurality of tables comprising:

a dealing effect table configured to provide said relationship in a poker game, said dealing effect table being referenced by said control unit to determine said image effect to be produced in response to said deal situation after said plurality of cards is dealt to said player hand as said group of cards in said player hand;

a draw deal effect table configured to provide said relationship in said poker game, said draw deal effect table being referenced by said control unit to determine said image effect to be produced in response to said deal situation after at least one of said group of cards in said player hand is exchanged for at least one card from said deck of playing cards; and

a double down game deal effect table configured to provide said relationship in a double down game, said double down game deal effect table being referenced by said control unit to determine said image effect to be produced in response to said deal situation after a card from said deck of playing cards is displayed in a face-up state on said display unit and another plurality of cards from said deck of playing cards is dealt to said player hand in a face-down state as another group of cards in said player hand; and

a lottery unit for sampling a random number,

wherein the control unit produces the image effect based on said random number sampled by the lottery unit,

wherein, if the deal situation comprises a winning poker hand, the control unit offers said double down game to be played,

wherein, if the offer of the control unit to play said double down game is accepted, the control unit enables said double down game to be played,

wherein an excitement level of said image effect is dependent upon a quality of said deal situation, and

wherein said relationship between said image effect and said deal situation defines said excitement level of said image effect,

wherein each of said dealing effect table, said draw deal effect table, and said double down game deal effect table includes a relationship between a winning combination, a dealing effect description, and a probability that at least one premium effect is produced; and wherein the at least one premium effect is one of a plurality of premium effects and is chosen based on a probability associated with the winning combination.

2. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said control unit produces a sound effect through a speaker in response to said deal situation displayed as said image by the display unit.

3. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said dealer character deals said plurality of cards to said player hand as a group of cards in said player hand.

4. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said control unit produces said animated responses of said dealer character in response to the relationship between the deal situation and the image effect.

5. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said image effect determined by said control unit through said relationship provided in said dealing effect table is produced after said plurality of cards is dealt to said player hand as said group of cards in said player hand.

6. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said image effect determined by said control unit through said relationship provided in said draw deal effect table is produced after said at least one of said group of cards in said player hand is exchanged for said at least one card from said deck of playing cards.

7. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein said image effect determined by said control unit through said relationship provided in said double down game deal effect table is produced after said card from said deck of playing cards is displayed in said face-up state on said display unit and said another plurality of cards from said deck of playing cards is dealt to said player hand in said face-down state as said another group of cards in said player hand.

8. The card gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein a production of said image effect occurs after said deal situation is displayed.

9. A card gaming machine, comprising:

a deck of playing cards;

a lottery unit configured to sample at least one of a plurality of random numbers respectively corresponding to said playing cards to determine at least one of said playing cards to be dealt to a player hand or exchanged to said player hand for at least one of a plurality of playing cards previously dealt to said player hand;

a display unit configured to display said playing cards being dealt to said player hand and exchanged to said player hand for at least one of said plurality of playing cards previously dealt to said player hand;

a storage unit storing a plurality of tables, said plurality of tables providing a relationship between a combination of said playing cards in said player hand and an image effect configured to be displayed on said display unit, said relationship being used to determine said image effect to be produced on said display unit in response to said combination of said playing cards in said player hand, said plurality of tables comprising:

a dealing effect table configured to provide said relationship in a poker game, said dealing effect table being referenced to determine an image effect to be produced in response to a combination of said playing cards in said player hand after at least one of said playing cards is dealt to said player hand;

a draw deal effect table configured to provide said relationship in said poker game, said draw deal effect table being referenced to determine an image effect to be produced in response to a combination of said playing cards in said player hand after at least one of said playing cards is exchanged to said player hand for at least one of said plurality of playing cards previously dealt to said player hand; and

a double down game deal effect table configured to provide said relationship in a double down game, said double down game deal effect table being referenced to determine an image effect to be produced in response to a combination of said playing cards in said player hand after one of said playing cards is displayed in a face-up state on said display unit and at least one of said playing cards is dealt to said player hand in a face-down state on said display unit; and

a control unit configured to offer said double down game to be played if said player hand in said poker game is a winning hand, to enable said double down game to be played if said offer is accepted, and to use said relationship and reference said plurality of tables to determine said image effect to be produced on the display unit in response to said combination of said playing cards in said player hand, said image effect comprising a dealer character displayed at a center of said display unit throughout said poker game and said double down game, said dealer character providing animated responses on said display unit in response to said combination of said playing cards in said player hand,

wherein an excitement level of said image effect is dependent upon a quality of said combination of said playing cards in said player hand,

wherein said relationship between said image effect and said combination of said playing cards in said player hand defines said excitement level of said image effect, and

wherein each of said dealing effect table, said draw deal effect table, and said double down game deal effect table includes a relationship between a winning combination, a dealing effect description, and a probability that at least one premium effect is produced; and wherein the at least one premium effect is one of a plurality of premium effects and is chosen based on a probability associated with the winning combination.

10. The card gaming machine according to claim 9 , wherein said control unit produces a sound effect through a speaker to correspond with a display of said image effect.

11. The card gaming machine according to claim 9 , wherein said dealer character deals said playing cards to said player hand.

12. The card gaming machine according to claim 9 ,

wherein said image effect comprises one of a plurality of image effects,

wherein said plurality of tables provides said relationship between said combination of said playing cards and said plurality of image effects and associates a plurality of counter values to said plurality of image effects, and

wherein said control unit selects said image effect from said plurality of image effects according to a random number that matches one of said plurality of counter values.