Method and system for conducting concurrent games

A method for aggregating players and creating games in a gaming system comprising a plurality of gameplay stations and a gaming server including at least a memory and a processor, the method including:

• receiving a gameplay request from one of the plurality of gameplay stations at the gaming server, said gameplay request comprising input received from a user interface of said one of a plurality of gameplay stations and being communicated from the one of a plurality of gameplay stations to the gaming server using a communications interface;
• identifying a number of active games pending at the gaming server;
• determining whether the number of active games pending at the gaming server meets a predefined condition for a maximum number of active games;
• identifying a number of failed gameplay requests at the gaming server in response to determining that the number of active games pending at the gaming server is below the predefined condition for the maximum number of active games;
• determining whether the number of failed gameplay requests at the gaming server exceeds a predefined condition for a maximum failure rate;
• creating a new game at the gaming server with the gameplay request in response to determining at least that the number of active games pending at the gaming server does not meet the predefined condition for the maximum number of active games and that the number of failed gameplay requests at the gaming server does not exceed the predefined condition for the maximum failure rate.

A method for aggregating players and creating games in a gaming system comprising a plurality of gameplay stations and a gaming server including at least a memory and a processor, the method including:

• receiving a gameplay request from one of the plurality of gameplay stations at the gaming server, said gameplay request comprising input received from a user interface of said one of the plurality of gameplay stations and being communicated from the one of the plurality of gameplay stations to the gaming server using a communications interface;
• identifying a number of active games pending at the gaming server;
• determining whether the number of active games pending at the gaming server meets a predefined condition for a maximum number of active games;
• identifying a number of failed gameplay requests at the gaming server in response to determining that the number of active games pending at the gaming server is below the predefined condition for the maximum number of active games;
• determining whether the number of failed gameplay requests at the gaming server exceeds a predefined condition for a maximum failure rate;
• creating a usage value based on a ratio of a number of the plurality of gameplay stations and the number of active games in response to determining that the number of failed game play requests at the gaming server is below the predefined condition for the maximum failure rate;
• determining whether the usage value exceeds a first randomly selected control value;
• identifying a number of the plurality of gameplay stations currently participating in the active games pending at the gaming server in response to determining that the usage value exceeds the first randomly selected control value;
• determining whether the number of the plurality of gameplay stations currently participating in the active games pending at the gaming server exceeds a second randomly selected control value;
• creating a new game at the gaming server with the gameplay request in response to determining that the number of the plurality of gameplay stations currently participating in the active games pending at the gaming server does not exceed the second randomly selected control value.