A method of playing an improved version of stud poker is disclosed wherein from two to eight players can play the present invention. A barcode can also be configured or printed from or on the, such that the barcode contains calibration data associated with a calibration of the sensor and the sensing component. In the multispeed reproducing mode of the reproducing arrangement encoded data are read from only a part of the data blocks of the data stream and supplied to decoding means of the reproducing arrangement, whose computing capacity is therefore also adequate for the multi-speed reproducing mode.