Community card poker game
AssigneesKenneth Ward, Gregory Turocy
InventorKenneth Ward
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate a player re-entering a card game, even though they may have “folded” their hand on a previous turn in the card game. Conventionally, in traditional forms of community card poker games, once a player has folded their hand they are unable to take part in the game currently being played. Rather than folding their hand, a player can “hold” their hand with the possibility of returning to the game. By enabling a buy-back-in feature a player can re-enter the game to continue betting, etc. Further the sequence of game play can be altered compared with the conventional play. The card game can be played in a physical environment as well as a digital environment.
Claims20
A method of playing a community card type poker game, the method comprising:
- dealing, by a system comprising a processor at least one player card to each player in a group of players playing the community card poker game, wherein the group of players comprises at least a first player;
- dealing, by the system, a community card;
- facilitating, by the system, a first round of betting;
- detecting, by the system, during the first round of betting, the first player folding their at least one player card;
- dealing, by the system, another community card;
- detecting, by a system, after the first round of betting, a request by the first player to resume participation in the game with their folded at least one player card;
- facilitating, by the system, a second round of betting;
- enabling, by the system, the first player to unfold their at least one player card and resume participation in the game with their at least one player card;
- and
- resolving, by the system, a winner of the game in accordance with predetermined rules regarding the combination of cards comprising each player's hand, wherein each player's hand comprising their at least one player card and the community cards.
A system for playing a community card poker game, comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
- dealing at least one player card to each player in a group of players;
- dealing a community card;
- facilitating a first round of betting;
- detecting, during the first round of betting, a player folding;
- dealing another community card;
- detecting, after the first round of betting, a request by the folded player to resume participation in the game;
- facilitating a second round of betting;
- enabling the folded player to unfold their at least one player card and resume participation in the game with their at least one player card;
- and
- resolving a winner of the game in accordance with predetermined rules regarding the combination of cards comprising each player's hand, wherein each player's hand comprising their at least one player card and the community cards.
A system comprising:
- a memory to store computer-executable instructions;
- and
- a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to perform operations relating to playing a community card poker game, the operations comprising:
- dealing at least one player card to each player in a group of players;
- dealing a community card;
- facilitate a first round of betting;
- detecting, during the first round of betting, a player folding;
- dealing another community card;
- detecting, after the first round of betting, a request by the folded player to resume participation in the game;
- facilitating a second round of betting;
- enabling the folded player to unfold their at least one player card and resume participation in the game with their at least one player card;
- and
- resolving a winner of the game in accordance with predetermined rules regarding the combination of cards comprising each player's hand, wherein each player's hand comprising their at least one player card and the community cards.
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