Video poker wagering game having multiple pay tables
AssigneeWMS Gaming Inc.
InventorsChris Barney, Darvell Hunt, Brian Manning, Alfred Thomas
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Abstract
A gaming system has at least one display adapted to display a wagering game including the display of a player's hand and a computer opponent's hand in a card-based wagering game, a player input device, and a controller. The controller is operative to award to a player an award from a pay table for a player's hand having a winning combination associated with the pay table, regardless of a rank of the computer's opponent hand relative to the player's hand.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of conducting wagering games on a wagering game system, the wagering game system including one or more input devices, one or more display devices, and one or more processors, the method comprising:
- receiving, via at least one of the one or more input devices, an input from a player indicative of a wager to play a poker game, the poker game including first and second pay tables, each pay table including a hierarchy of poker hand ranks and respective payouts;
- receiving, via at least one of the one or more input devices, an input from the player to select a single computer opponent from a plurality of player-selectable computer opponents having respective different playing strategies;
- displaying, on at least one of the one or more display devices, a poker hand of the player and a poker hand of the selected computer opponent;
- modifying, by a controller, the poker hand of the selected computer opponent in accordance with the selected computer opponent's playing strategy;
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- in response to the player's poker hand being among the hierarchy of poker hands, awarding, by the controller, the associated payout from the first pay table if the player's poker hand has a lesser rank than the computer opponent's poker hand and awarding the associated payout from the second pay table if the player's poker hand has a greater rank than the computer opponent's poker hand, the payout from the second pay table being greater than the payout from the first pay table.
A gaming system configured to conduct a wagering game comprising:
- one or more input devices;
- one or more display devices;
- one or more processors;
- one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming system to:
- receive an input, via at least one of the one or more input devices, from a player indicative of a wager to play a poker game, the poker game including first and second pay tables, each pay table including a hierarchy of poker hand ranks and respective payouts;
- receive an input, via at least one of the one or more input devices, from the player to select a single computer opponent from a plurality of player-selectable computer opponents having respective different playing strategies;
- display, on at least one of the one or more display devices, a poker hand of the player and a poker hand of the selected computer opponent;
- modify, by a controller, the poker hand of the selected computer opponent in accordance with the selected computer opponent's playing strategy;
- in response to the player's poker hand being among the hierarchy of poker hands, award, by the controller, the associated payout from the first pay table if the player's poker hand has a lesser rank than the computer opponent's poker hand and awarding the associated payout from the second pay table if the player's poker hand has a greater rank than the computer opponent's poker hand, the payout from the second pay table being greater than the payout from the first pay table.
A computer-implemented method of conducting wagering games on a wagering game system, the wagering game system including one or more input devices, one or more display devices, and one or more processors, the method comprising:
- receiving, via at least one of the one or more input devices, an input from a player to place a wager to play a poker game, the poker game including first and second pay tables, each pay table including a hierarchy of poker hand ranks and respective payouts;
- receiving, via at least one of the one or more input devices, an input from the player to select a single computer opponent from a plurality of player-selectable computer opponents having respective different playing strategies;
- displaying, on at least one of the one or more display devices, a poker hand of the player and a poker hand of the selected computer opponent;
- receiving, via at least one of the one or more input devices, an input from the player to alter the poker hand of the player;
- altering, by a controller, the poker hand of the selected computer opponent in accordance with the selected computer opponent's playing strategy;
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- in response to the player's poker hand being among the hierarchy of poker hands, awarding, by the controller, the associated payout from the first pay table if the player's poker hand has a lesser rank than the computer opponent's poker hand and awarding the associated payout from the second pay table if the player's poker hand has a greater rank than the computer opponent's poker hand, the payout from the second pay table being greater than the payout from the first pay table.
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