Gambling games

• US 20030199313A1
• Filed: 04/30/2003
• Published: 10/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CV on NET NV
• Original Assignee: CV on NET NV
• Inventors: Gonen, Alon, Shotten, Ishai
• Granted Patent: US 7,344,440 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/25
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements

Abstract

A method of managing a gambling game having a banker role and one or more player roles. The method includes registering one or more users in a banker queue of users interested in being bankers of the game, registering one or more users in a player queue of users interested in being players in the game, selecting one or more users from the banker queue and one or more users from the player queue and playing the game by the selected users, the one or more users from the banker queue performing the banker role and the one or more users from the user queue acting as players.

Claims

1. A method of managing a gambling game having a banker role and one or more player roles, comprising:

registering one or more users in a banker queue of users interested in being bankers of the game;

registering one or more users in a player queue of users interested in being players in the game;

selecting one or more users from the banker queue and one or more users from the player queue; and

playing the game by the selected users, the one or more users from the banker queue performing the banker role and the one or more users from the user queue acting as players.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting according to the order of entrance of the users to the queue.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting users according to a banker score which represents for each user the entitlement of the user to serve as the banker.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the banker score depends on one or more of the total wagers of the user in the casino, the number of rounds played by the user in the casino, the net losses of the user in the casino and the previously accrued revenues of the user in acting as banker in the casino.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting users which did not register recently in the player queue.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a single-user game.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game by the selected users comprises splitting the role of banker between a plurality of users from the banker queue.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein splitting the banker role between the plurality of users comprises splitting responsive to the credit status of one or more of the users.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing the game with at least one rule parameter of the game determined by at least one of the one or more users from the banker role.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the at least one rule parameter comprises the maximal wager of the game.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a well-known casino games.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a software provided gambling game.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein playing the software provided gambling game comprises playing a game provided over a communication network.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein the gambling game belongs to a casino including a plurality of games and wherein registering one or more users in a banker queue of the game comprises registering at least one of the users in banker queues of a plurality of games of the casino having a common attribute.

15. A method according to claim 14, wherein registering the at least one of the users in banker queues of a plurality of games comprises registering the user in the banker queues of all available games which require at least a specific sum for becoming banker.

16. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting responsive to the credit status of the users in the queue.

17. Gambling apparatus, comprising:

an input interface for receiving indications from users interested in being players in a gambling game and users interested in being banker in the gambling game; and

a processor which selects one or more users interested in being banker and one or more users interested in being players, and determines the results of a gambling game in which the one or more users selected from the users interested in being banker perform the banker role and the one or more selected users interested in being players act as players.

18. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the input interface receives indications over a communication network.

19. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the input interface receives indications over the Internet.

20. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the processor selects substantially all the users from which indications of being interested in being banker were received that have sufficient credit for receiving a respective portion of the banker role.

21. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the input interface is adapted to receive from at least one user an attribute of a plurality of games for which the user wants to serve as banker.

22. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the processor selects the one or more users interested in being banker responsive to the order in which the input interface receives the indications from the users.

23. Apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the processor selects the one or more users interested in being banker responsive to a banker score which represents for each user the entitlement of the user to serve as the banker.

24. A method of playing a casino game, comprising:

playing a casino game with at least one first player operating as banker and using a first value of at least one rule parameter of the game;

selecting at least one second player to operate as banker;

determining a second value, different from the first value, of the at least one rule parameter responsive to the selected at least one second player; and

playing the casino game with the at least one second player operating as banker and using the second value of the at least one rule parameter of the game.

25. A method according to claim 24, wherein the at least one rule parameter comprises a maximal allowed wager.

26. A method according to claim 25, wherein determining the second value of the at least one rule parameter comprises determining responsive to a credit level of the at least one second player.