Poker game

• US 20070060240A1
• Filed: 09/12/2005
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rodney White
• Original Assignee: Rodney White
• Inventors: White, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US11/224,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20070060240A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/13
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements

Abstract

In commercial and recreational gaming environments, the inventions provide variations on video poker games that encourage longer play and higher wagers while decreasing the adverse selection of gaming devices with preferred odds by experienced players. The inventions describe the use of pot builders to increase the number of betting propositions for a single play and offer a range of payable events and their probabilities. The inventions also describe the use of randomly distributed, randomly occurring multipliers which are applied to the pay tables for the pot builders to increase the number of opportunities for the occurrence of low probability high value payable events.

Claims

1. A software implemented method for the play of a poker type game on an electronic device comprising:

a wagering step that requires a player to select and wager on a plurality of pot builders, each of said pot builders having a pay table;

a multiplying step that selectively multiplies the odds of a pay table by a factor greater than or equal to 1; and

a factor assignment step wherein the most probable value for said factor is 1.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said multiplying step comprises the comparison of a randomly selected number from a range of numbers to a table of values for said factor.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said factor increases in value with a decreasing frequency of occurrence.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein said factor increases in value with a decreasing frequency of occurrence.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the play of said poker type game further comprises:

a first distribution of two cards per player;

following said distribution, a display of five community cards; and

wherein the winning player is determined by identifying the best five card poker hand obtainable from the combination of each of said player'"'"'s cards with said community cards.