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US 2026/0301541 A1Published application
Personal tournaments
AssigneeIgt
InventorsJeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Donald Dusich
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Abstract
Gaming systems and methods that provide a display of a plurality of different personal tournaments, enable a player to select one of the personal tournaments, cause a display and enable the player to play the selected personal tournament, determine if the player achieves or exceeds a standard for the play of the personal tournament, determine any award for the play of the personal tournament based on whether the player achieves or exceeds the standard for the play of the personal tournament, cause a display of any such determined award, and cause any such determined award to be provided to the player.
Claims20
A gaming system comprising:
- a personal tournament controller comprising a processor and a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of an indication of a personal tournament,
- wherein the personal tournament comprises interim standards,
- wherein the personal tournament comprises plays of a tournament game,
- wherein one of the interim standards cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game,
- wherein each of the interim standards can be achieved in a plurality of the plays of the tournament game, and
- wherein the personal tournament is not against any other competitors, players, or electronic gaming machines,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the interim standards of the personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of a play of the personal tournament comprising the plays of the tournament game of the personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication that one of the interim standards for the play of the personal tournament is achieved or exceeded, and
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of an amount based on the one of the interim standards for the play of the personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the interim standards are each different than the amount.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a personal tournament controller comprising a processor and a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of indications of a plurality of different personal tournaments,
- wherein each of the personal tournaments comprises different interim standards,
- wherein each of the personal tournaments comprises plays of a different tournament game,
- wherein for each of the personal tournaments:
- (i) one of the interim standards of that personal tournament cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game of the tournament, and (ii) all of the interim standards of that personal tournament can be achieved in a plurality of the plays of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and
- wherein each of the personal tournaments is not against any other competitors, players, or electronic gaming machines,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of a player selected one of the personal tournaments and the interim standards of the selected personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of a play of the selected personal tournament comprising the plays of the tournament game of the selected personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the interim standards for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, and
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of amounts for the interim standards for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the interim standards are different than the amount.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a personal tournament controller comprising a processor and a memory device storing a plurality of instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- cause a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of indications of a plurality of different personal tournaments,
- wherein each of the personal tournaments comprises different types of interim standards,
- wherein each of the personal tournaments comprises plays of a respective tournament game,
- wherein for each of the personal tournaments:
- (i) one of the interim standards of that personal tournament cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and (ii) the interim standards of that personal tournament can be achieved in a plurality of the plays of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and
- wherein each of the personal tournaments is not against any other competitors, players, or electronic gaming machines,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of a player selected one of the personal tournaments and the interim standards of the selected personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of a play of the selected personal tournament comprising the plays of the tournament game of the selected personal tournament,
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the interim standards for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, and
- cause a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of amounts for the interim standards for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the interim standards are different than the amounts.
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