Gaming devices and methods for enhancing future gaming events
OwnerBradley Bermaninventor
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods for designating game indicia locations during current gaming events to enhance game indicia at the identified positions in subsequent gaming events. In a poker context, card positions in a first poker game may be randomly selected, and if any are randomly selected, enhanced cards are repeatedly provided in periodic or random intervals of subsequent poker games at corresponding card positions until a termination event occurs.
Claims20
A gaming apparatus for facilitating player participation in electronic poker games, the gaming apparatus comprising:
- a video display operable to display a game play grid having a plurality of card positions;
- digital storage configured to store a plurality of virtual cards;
- a user interface configured to receive at least player input to facilitate player participation in the poker game;
- a wager input device structured to identify and validate player assets, and to permit the player to participate in the electronic poker games in which the player assets are provided;
- a processor configured to:
- randomly select cards from the plurality of virtual cards to present in at least some of the plurality of card positions to form a first poker hand via the video display;
- randomly designate a card position among the plurality of card positions on the video display having one of the randomly selected cards in the first poker hand, wherein the randomly designated card position is visually identified on the video display;
- store, via the digital storage, the location of the randomly designated card position;
- facilitate the player's completion of participation of the first poker hand;
- facilitate the player's participation in a number (N) of intermediate poker hands;
- identify a benefit-receiving poker hand to be N+1 poker hands after the first poker hand in which the card position was randomly designated;
- provide an enhanced card at the stored location of the randomly designated card position in the benefit-receiving poker hand;
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- facilitate player's participation to completion of the benefit-receiving poker hand using the enhanced card.
A gaming apparatus for facilitating player participation in electronic poker games, the gaming apparatus comprising:
- a video display operable to display a plurality of card positions;
- a user interface configured to receive at least player input to facilitate player participation in the poker game;
- a wager input device structured to identify and validate player assets, and to permit the player to participate in the electronic poker games in which the player assets are provided;
- a processor configured to:
- randomly select cards to present in a first multi-hand poker game where a plurality of poker hands are concurrently played, and present the randomly selected cards via the video display;
- randomly select zero, one or more of the plurality of card positions of the plurality of poker hands of the first multi-hand poker game, wherein any randomly selected card positions are visually identified on the video display;
- if one or more card positions of the plurality of poker hands of the first multi-hand poker game was randomly selected, repeatedly provide enhanced cards at the one or more randomly selected card positions for non-consecutive subsequent multi-hand poker games;
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- discontinue the repeated providing of the enhanced cards in response to a termination condition being met.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.