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AssigneeUniversal Distributing of Nevada, Inc.
InventorsDaniel P. Charron, Daniel F. Yeates
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A video gaming apparatus that plays an interactive game of poker with a player provides a payback table that is modified at the beginning of each hand to provide at least one bonus card combination which has an increased payback amount. The bonus card combination having the increased payback amount is randomly selected prior to dealing the hand. In addition, the amount by which the payback is increased is also randomly selected. The bonus card combination and the increased payback amount are presented to the player prior to the player making a decision as to how to respond to the dealt hand so that the player must take the odds of completing the bonus card combination into consideration in deciding which cards to hold and which cards to discard and replace with drawn cards. Thus, an additional element of decision-making is added to the basic poker game, thereby providing differentiation between the improved poker game and conventional poker games.
An apparatus that plays an interactive game of chance with a player in response to a monetary wager and commands from the player, said apparatus providing the player with monetary output when said interactive game is concluded if the player has obtained one of a predetermined number of levels of winning results, said monetary output varying in accordance with said levels and with an amount of said monetary wager, said apparatus comprising:
A method for determining the payout from a gaming device, said gaming device randomly selecting a selected outcome from a plurality of potential outcomes and displaying said selected outcome at the end of a game played on said gaming device, said potential outcomes including a plurality of winning outcomes which activate a payout in accordance with a predetermined paytable, said paytable including a plurality of levels of winning outcomes, each level having a different payout, said randomly selected outcome activating one of said different payouts when said randomly selected outcome is one of said plurality of winning outcomes, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for determining the payout from a gaming device, said gaming device randomly selecting a selected outcome from a plurality of potential outcomes and displaying said selected outcome at the end of a game played on said gaming device, said potential outcomes including a plurality of winning outcomes which activate a payout in accordance with a predetermined paytable, said paytable including a plurality of levels of winning outcomes, each level having a different payout, said randomly selected outcome activating one of said different payouts when said randomly selected outcome is one of said plurality of winning outcomes, said method comprising the steps of:
An electronic poker machine that plays an interactive game of poker with a player by dealing a first poker hand and displaying said hand to said player and permitting said player to selectively draw cards to replace cards in said first poker hand to generate a final poker hand, said machine comprising:
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