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US 2014/0274257 A1Published application
Method and Apparatus for Electronic Gaming
AssigneeJack Ten Suited
InventorRobert Burnside
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Abstract
A system and method for controlling a player's action and/or a player's rate of play is provided. In an embodiment, automatic folding hands are provided, wherein the automatic folding hands identify which hands are to be automatically folded. The automatic folding hands may be identified as a list of hands that are not to be played, or a set of hands that are to be played such that if a hand is not in the list it is to be folded.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an indication of a set of automatic folding hands from each of one or more players;
- providing a first set of one or more cards to each of the one or more players;
- after the providing the first set of cards, automatically folding players receiving a first set of one or more cards that have been identified as an automatic folding hand in the corresponding set of automatic folding hands received from the corresponding player;
- providing an indication to all non-folding players of all folding players, the indication being provided prior to the folding players turn to act.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a gaming system, an indication of a set of automatic folding hands from one or more players of a plurality of players;
- providing, by a gaming system, one or more cards to each of the plurality of players to play a hand of a card game;
- and
- determining, by the gaming system, the one or more cards provided to any of the players were defined as an automatic folding hand by the respective player and automatically folding the corresponding player.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- receive an indication of a set of folding hands from each of one or more of a plurality of players;
- provide one or more cards of a first hand to each of the plurality of players;
- and
- fold each of the one or more of the plurality of players provided cards identified as one of the folding hands;
- and
- an interface coupling the processor to a communications network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.