Method and apparatus for electronic gaming
AssigneeJack Ten Suited
InventorRobert Burnside
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Abstract
A system and method for providing a card game is provided. Players are provided an option to enter one or more tournaments (for real monies or play monies). In an embodiment, a tournament lasts for a predetermined number of hands for a predetermined duration. As an example, a tournament duration is defined by the number of players who bust out or complete a requisite number of hands by a predetermined date and time, or is defined by a specified number of players who bust out or complete the requisite number of hands. A tournament payout pool is determined based on the number of players who busted out or played in the tournament for a predetermined number of hands and duration.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- providing, by a remote computerized gaming system over a network, one or more first cards to a first player and one or more second cards to a second player in a first hand of a card game, wherein the first player and the second player are competitors in the first hand;
- receiving, by the computerized gaming system over the network, an indication that the first player has entered a first tournament, the first hand counting toward play in the first tournament for the first player, wherein the second player is not entered in the first tournament;
- determining, by the computerized gaming system, a winner of the first hand;
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- tracking, by the computerized gaming system, a performance of the first player in the first tournament.
A method comprising:
- receiving over a network, by a computerized gaming system at a first location, a first indication that a first player has submitted a first entry in a tournament for a first type of card game, the first player being located at a second location different from the first location;
- providing over the network, by the computerized gaming system, one or more first cards to the first player and one or more second cards to a second player in a first hand of a card game of the first type,
- the first hand counting toward play for the first entry in the tournament for the first player, wherein the second player is not entered in the tournament;
- determining, by the computerized gaming system, a winner of the first hand;
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- tracking, by the computerized gaming system, a performance of the first player for the first entry in the tournament.
A method comprising:
- providing, by a computerized gaming system over a network, one or more first cards to a first player and one or more second cards to a second player in a first hand of a card game, wherein the first player has a first entry in a first tournament of the card game, wherein the second player has a second entry in the first tournament of the card game, wherein the computerized gaming system is remotely located from the first player and the second player;
- placing, by the computerized gaming system, the first player into a first payout pool based upon when the first player has completed a first number of hands, wherein the first payout pool represents a predetermined number of sequential players having completed the first number of hands or losing;
- and
- placing, by the computerized gaming system, the second player into a second payout pool based upon when the second player has completed the first number of hands, the second payout pool being a different payout pool than the first payout pool, wherein the second payout pool represents the predetermined number of sequential players having completed the first number of hands or losing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.