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US 11,776,363 B2Granted
Gaming devices and methods for enriching game play with migrating award enhancements
OwnerBradley Bermaninventor
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Abstract
Systems, apparatuses and methods for providing opportunities to enhance gaming results over a plurality of gaming events. In one embodiment, award enhancements such as wild cards and/or payout modifiers migrate through a multi-hand poker array over multiple poker games, thereby changing the award enhancement opportunities as the award enhancements migrate.
Claims20
An electronic poker device for playing poker games, comprising:
- a display configured to present a plurality of poker hands each having a plurality of cards presented at respective card positions for each of the poker games;
- a user interface configured to at least enable player interaction with each of the poker games;
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- a processor configured to:
- randomly select cards to present for each of the plurality of poker hands at their respective card positions for each of the poker games;
- on a first poker game, position a poker hand enhancement at a randomly designated one of the card positions of a respective one of the plurality of poker hands;
- facilitate completion of each of the plurality of poker hands of the first poker game, using the poker hand enhancement at the respective one of the plurality of poker hands;
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- facilitate participation in one or more additional ones of the poker games, and move the poker hand enhancement to a corresponding one of the card positions of adjacent ones of the plurality of poker hands on each of the one or more additional ones of the poker games.
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A gaming apparatus for playing poker games, comprising:
- a display configured to present a first poker hand and a second poker hand, each of the first poker hand and the second poker hand having a plurality of card positions;
- a user interface including at least one mechanism to allow for player interaction during the poker games;
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- a processor configured to:
- receive a signal to initiate a first poker game;
- randomly select cards to present in the card positions of the first poker hand;
- determine if a poker hand enhancement is associated with any of the card positions of the first poker hand;
- display the randomly selected cards in the card positions of the first poker hand, where a randomly selected card to be displayed in a card position that is determined to be associated with the poker hand enhancement is replaced by a wild card in that card position of the first poker hand;
- facilitate an opportunity for cards to be held in the first poker hand;
- copying any cards held from the first poker hand to respectively associated card positions in the second poker hand;
- randomly selecting draw cards to replace any non-held cards in the first poker hand and the second poker hand and displaying the randomly selected draw cards on the display to form a first final poker hand and a second final poker hand;
- evaluate the first final poker hand and the second final poker hand for card combinations associated with awards;
- receive a signal to initiate a second poker game;
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- move the poker hand enhancement from the first poker hand to a corresponding one of the card positions in the second poker hand for use in the second poker game.
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