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US 7,017,909 B1Granted
Draw poker
OwnerYehia Awadainventor
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Abstract
A video poker machine provides images of five card poker hands. A player may make a draw whereby selected cards of a poker hand are replaced by newly dealt cards thereby forming a second poker hand. The player may make a wager that the first poker hand has a rank greater than a known rank. The player may additionally wager that the rank of the second poker hand is higher than the rank of the first poker hand. A bonus payout may be made based upon the rank of one of the hands.
Claims9
In a method of a playing a game on a gaming machine, the steps of:
- providing a video image of five cards randomly dealt from a standard deck of fifty two cards in response to a player depositing a draw Poker wager into the machine, said five randomly dealt cards forming a first Poker hand;
- providing a video image of a second chance pay table;
- permitting said player to deposit a second chance wager into the machine prior to said player making a draw that causes an exchange of images of selected ones of said five cards with images of newly dealt cards from said deck thereby forming a second Poker hand;
- permitting said player to make said draw;
- providing a view of a draw poker pay table;
- making a payout to said player in accordance with said second Poker hand and the draw Poker pay table;
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- making a payout to said player in accordance with said second Poker hand and a second chance pay table when said player makes said second chance wager.
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In the method of playing a game on a gaming machine, the steps of:
- providing a video image of five cards randomly dealt from a first standard deck of fifty two cards in response to a player depositing a starting wager into the machine, said five randomly dealt cards forming a first Poker hand;
- permitting said player to make a draw that causes an exchange of images of selected cards of said first Poker hand with images of newly dealt cards from said first deck thereby forming a first final hand;
- providing a view of a draw poker pay table;
- giving said player a first credit in accordance with said draw Poker pay table for an amount wagered equal to the starting wager, the rank being that of the first final hand;
- providing a video image of five cards randomly dealt from a second standard deck, thereby forming a second Poker hand;
- permitting said player to form a second final hand by making a draw that exchanges images of selected cards of said second Poker hand for images of newly dealt cards from said second deck;
- giving said player a final payout in accordance with said pay table for an amount wagered equal to said first credit and the rank of the second final hand;
- and ending said game when any final hand does not meet a minimum payout standard of said pay table.
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