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 method of operating a gaming system comprising a personal tournament controller and an electronic gaming machine, said method comprising:
- causing a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of an indication of personal tournament,
- wherein the personal tournament comprises a standard,
- wherein the personal tournament comprises plays of a tournament game,
- wherein standard cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game,
- wherein the standard 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,
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the standard of the personal tournament,
- causing 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,
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication that the standard for the play of the personal tournament is achieved or exceeded, and
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of an amount based on the standard for the play of the personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the standard is different than the amount.
A method of operating a gaming system comprising a personal tournament controller and an electronic gaming machine, the method comprising:
- causing a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of indications of a plurality of different personal tournaments,
- wherein each different personal tournament comprises a different standard,
- wherein each different personal tournament comprises plays of a different tournament game,
- wherein for each different personal tournament:
- (i) the standard of that personal tournament cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game of the tournament, and (ii) the standard of that personal tournament can be achieved in a plurality of the plays of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and
- wherein each different personal tournament is not against any other competitors, players, or electronic gaming machines,
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of a player selected one of the different personal tournaments and the standard of the selected personal tournament,
- causing 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,
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the standard for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, and
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of an amount for the standard for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the standard is different than the amount.
A method of operating a gaming system comprising a personal tournament controller and an electronic gaming machine, said method comprising:
- causing a display, by a display device of an electronic gaming machine, of indications of a plurality of different personal tournaments,
- wherein each different personal tournament comprises a different type of standard,
- wherein each different personal tournament comprises plays of a respective tournament game,
- wherein for each different personal tournament:
- (i) the standard of that personal tournament cannot be achieved in a single play of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and (ii) the standard of that personal tournament can be achieved in a plurality of the plays of the tournament game of that personal tournament, and
- wherein each personal tournament is not against any other competitors, players, or electronic gaming machines,
- causing 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 standard of the selected personal tournament,
- causing 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,
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of the standard for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, and
- causing a display, by the display device of the electronic gaming machine, of an indication of an amount for the standard for the play of the selected personal tournament being achieved or exceeded, wherein the standard is different than the amount.
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