Card picks for progressive prize

A method comprising:

• controlling, by at least one processor:
• designating a first game being played by a primary player as a featured game in which participation of secondary players is allowed;
• displaying, over a communication network, simultaneously in real-time at a plurality of displays of a plurality of computing devices of a first plurality of secondary players, respectively, a progression of the first game as being played by the primary player;
• receiving from a first secondary player a first bet based on the progression of the featured game, in which the first bet speculates that a plurality of cards dealt in the featured game will have a first characteristic related to at least one of suits or ranks of the cards;
• providing a payout to the first secondary player based on a determination that the first characteristic matches the plurality of cards dealt in the first game, in which the payout is unaffected by whether the primary player wins the first game;
• designating a second game being played by another primary player to be the featured game, instead of the first game;
• and
• offering to the first plurality of secondary players an opportunity to bet on the second game.