House advantage excluding game apparatus and method of implementing the same

• US 20090275379A1
• Filed: 04/30/2008
• Published: 11/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tien-Shu Hsu
• Original Assignee: Tien-Shu Hsu
• Inventors: Hsu, Tien-Shu, Lai, Ying-Nan, Hsu, Shun-Tsung
• Application Number:
  US12/149,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20090275379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/17
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

A house advantage excluding game apparatus has a game server, multiple player terminals and a random number generator. The game server runs a game program. The game program is capable of generating a house advantage situation and has a house advantage exclusion method. Each player terminal corresponds to a player participating in the game program. The random number generator is controlled by the game server to generate a result. The house advantage exclusion method has acts of: recognizing a house advantage, generating a house advantage exclusive player group and selecting at least one player to pay out an extra bonus.

Claims

1. A house advantage excluding game apparatus comprising

a game server running a game program, the game program having a gaming status, a house advantage exclusion method and being capable of generating a house advantage situation;

multiple player terminals being electronically connected to the game server, displaying the gaming status and each player terminal corresponding to and accepting a player input to participate in the game program; and

a random number generator being electronically connected to the game server and being controlled by the game server to randomly generate a result;

wherein, the house advantage exclusion method comprises acts of;

recognizing a house advantage comprising the game server recognizing whether the result of the random number generator is a predetermined house advantage situation;

generating a house advantage exclusive player group comprising the game server generating a house advantage exclusive player group being selected from players according to a selection rule; and

selecting at least one player and payout comprising the game server selecting at least one player from the house advantage exclusive player group according to a probability of selection to pay an extra bonus.

2. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game program is a Roulette game program.

3. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game program is a Sic-bo game program.

4. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the selection rule selects a group consisting of players who placed bets that is larger than a preset quantity or players who placed bet.

5. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the selection rule selects a group consisting of:

players who placed at least one wager greater than a preset quantity, players who placed bet, players who placed bets on triples and players who placed bets on a correctly selected big or small value corresponding to a sum of the result.

6. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the random number generator is an electrical dicing machine.

7. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the random number generator is a ball drawing machine.

8. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the random number generator is an electrically controlled wheel.

9. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the random number generator is an electrical dicing machine.

10. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the game apparatus further has multiple indicators being electronically connected to the game server, each indicator corresponding to one of the player terminals and being controlled by the game server to outputs light.

11. The house advantage excluding game apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the game apparatus further has multiple indicators being electronically connected to the game server, each indicator corresponding to one of the player terminals and being controlled by the game server to outputs light.

12. A house advantage exclusion method for a game server being connected to multiple player terminals and a random number generator successively generating a result comprising acts of:

recognizing a house advantage comprising the game server determining whether the result of the random number generator is a predetermined house advantage situation;

generating a house advantage exclusive player group comprising the game server generating a house advantage exclusive player group being selected from players according to a selection rule; and

selecting at least one player and payout comprising the game server selecting at least one player from the house advantage exclusive player group according to a probability of selection to pay an extra bonus.

13. The house advantage exclusion method as claimed in claim 12, wherein, the selection rule selects a group consisting of:

players placed at least one wager greater than a preset value and players who placed a bet, players who placed bets on triples and players who placed bets on a correctly selected big or small value corresponding to a sum of the result.