LATE BET BACCARAT

• US 20100090402A1
• Filed: 07/03/2007
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Marcus A. Katz
• Original Assignee: Marcus A. Katz
• Inventors: Katz, Marcus A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,087,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 273/292
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

Among other things, enabling late bets in a game of Baccarat includes accepting a first bet from one or more participants. Two cards are dealt to each of a player position and a bank position. A player position score and a bank position score are determined based on the two cards dealt to each of the player position and the two cards dealt to the bank position. Based on the determined scores for the player position and the bank position, a determination is made on whether to deal a third card to at least one of the player position and the bank position.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accepting a bet from one or more participants;

dealing two cards each to a player position and a bank position;

determining a player position score and a bank position score based on the two cards dealt to each of the player position and the two cards dealt to the bank position; and

determining whether to deal a third card to at least one of the player position and the bank position based on the determined scores for the player position and the bank position.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants based on a policy of a casino or an online betting establishment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining whether to accept one or more late bets is based on the policy that includes real time calculations of a probability of the third card having a value from any one of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from the one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the player position when detected that a third card will be dealt to the bank position.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from the one or more participants when detected that a third card will be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from the one or more participants when detected that the determining whether to deal a third card to the bank position is based on a value of a third card dealt to the player position.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from the one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position after dealing a third card to the player position.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position only.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting one or more late bets from one or more participants before dealing a third card to the player position and before dealing a third card to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.

10. A computer program product, encoded on a computer-readable medium, operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

accepting a bet from one or more participants;

dealing two cards each to a player position and a bank position;

determining a player position score and a bank position score based on the two cards dealt to each of the player position and the bank position; and

determining whether to deal a third card to at least one of the player position and the bank position based on the determined scores for the player position and the bank position.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to determine whether to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants based on a policy of a casino or an online betting establishment.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to determine whether to accept one or more late bets based on the policy that includes real time calculations of a probability of the third card having a value from any one of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

13. The computer program product of claim 10 further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the player position when determined that a third card will be dealt to the bank position.

14. The computer program product of claim 10 further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants when determined that a third card will be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.

15. The computer program product of claim 10 further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants when detected that the determining whether to deal a third card to the bank position is based on a value of a third card dealt to the player position.

16. The computer program product of claim 10 further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before dealing a third card to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position after dealing a third card to the player position.

17. The computer program product of claim 10, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position only.

18. The computer program product of claim 10, further operable to cause a data processing apparatus to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before dealing a third card to the player position and before dealing a third card to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.

19. A system comprising:

a user interface configured to accept a first bet from one or more participants; and

a data processing unit communicatively coupled to the user interface, the data processing unit configured to

deal two cards each to a player position and a bank position;

determine a player position score and a bank position score based on the two cards dealt to each of the player position and the bank position; and

determine whether to deal a third card to at least one of the player position and the bank position based on the determined scores for the player position and the bank position.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the data processing unit is further configured to determine whether to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants based on a policy of a casino or an online betting establishment.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the data processing unit is further configured to determine whether to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants based on the policy that includes real time calculations of a probability of the third card having a value from any one of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

22. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the player position when the data processing unit detects that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants when the data processing unit detects that a third card is to be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.

24. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants when the data processing unit detects that the determining whether to deal a third card to the bank position is based on a value of a third card dealt to the player position.

25. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from the one or more participants before dealing a third card to the bank position when the data processing unit detects that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position after dealing a third card to the player position.

26. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from one or more participants before a third card is dealt to the bank position when the data processing unit detects that a third card is to be dealt to the bank position only.

27. The system of claim 19, wherein the user interface is further configured to accept one or more late bets from one or more participants before dealing a third card to the player position and before dealing a third card to the bank position when detected that a third card is to be dealt to both the player position and the bank position.