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US 2014/0179388 A1Published application
Video Poker Game with Revealed Cards
OwnerGeoff Hallinventor
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Abstract
A method, system, and computer readable storage medium to provide a variation of a video poker game. The video poker game offers the player an ability to view “reveal cards” after the initial deal of five cards. The reveal card(s) show the values of some of the card(s) that are on top of the deck which would be dealt as replacement cards. The player, being able to view these reveal cards, can select his or her cards to hold using a more careful strategy than if the player had no such information.
Claims10
An apparatus to play video poker, the apparatus comprising:
- an input unit and an output unit;
- a processing unit operationally connected to the input unit and the output unit, the processing unit configured to:
- provide an electronic deck of cards;
- allow the player to complete a first video poker game;
- deal an initial poker hand from a virtual deck of cards for the second video poker game;
- determine if the second video poker game qualified for at least one reveal card, and if so, then displaying the at least one reveal card which are undealt card values in the virtual deck, a number of the at least one reveal card being determined based on the final hand in the first video poker game;
- allow the player to select and replace discard cards in the initial poker hand to form a final poker hand, the discard cards replaced with cards dealt from the virtual deck.
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A method to play video poker, the method comprising:
- executing computer readable instructions on an electronic processing unit which perform the following operations:
- providing an electronic deck of cards;
- allowing the player to complete a first video poker game;
- dealing an initial poker hand from a virtual deck of cards for the second video poker game;
- determining if the second video poker game qualified for at least one reveal card, and if so, then displaying the at least one reveal card which are undealt card values in the virtual deck, a number of the at least one reveal card displayed being determined based on the final hand in the first video poker game;
- allowing the player to select and replace discard cards in the initial poker hand to form a final poker hand, the discard cards replaced with cards dealt from the virtual deck.
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