Systems, methods and articles to facilitate playing card games with selectable odds
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1. A gaming system, comprising:
- an input device operable to receive selections indicative of at least one of a set of odds or a house advantage for at least one hand to be played by at least one player of a card game;
a playing card handling system responsive to the selections received at the input device to provide the at least one hand of playing cards, where the playing cards forming the at least one hand of playing cards are physical playing cards and correspond to at least one set of virtual playing card values pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the received selections indicative of the at least one of the set of odds or the house advantage, wherein at least one of the selections received by the input device identifies the set of odds or house advantage for the respective hand of playing cards, and the at least one set of virtual playing card values is pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the at least one of the set of odds or house advantage identified by the at least one of the selections; and
at least a first display operable to display a set of odds for at least one player based on at least one of the received selections.
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Abstract
A system and method may provide playing cards which are selected based on a desired set of payout or house odds and/or house advantage. The system and method may display payout odds for respective player positions. The system and method may operate a playing card handling device to provide the playing cards in a random or pseudo-random fashion, based at least in part on the selected payout or house odds and/or house advantage.
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36 Claims
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1. A gaming system, comprising:
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an input device operable to receive selections indicative of at least one of a set of odds or a house advantage for at least one hand to be played by at least one player of a card game; a playing card handling system responsive to the selections received at the input device to provide the at least one hand of playing cards, where the playing cards forming the at least one hand of playing cards are physical playing cards and correspond to at least one set of virtual playing card values pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the received selections indicative of the at least one of the set of odds or the house advantage, wherein at least one of the selections received by the input device identifies the set of odds or house advantage for the respective hand of playing cards, and the at least one set of virtual playing card values is pseudo-randomly generated based at least in part on the at least one of the set of odds or house advantage identified by the at least one of the selections; and at least a first display operable to display a set of odds for at least one player based on at least one of the received selections. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:
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receiving via at least one input device selections indicative of at least one of a set of odds or a house advantage for at least one hand to be played by at least one player of a card game; pseudo-randomly generating by a processor at least one set of virtual playing card values based at least in part on the at least one of the set of odds or the house advantage indicated by at least one of the received selections; providing via a card handling mechanism the at least one hand of playing cards, where the playing cards forming the at least one hand of playing cards are physical playing cards and correspond to the at least one set of virtual playing card values pseudo-randomly generated at least in part based on the received selection indicative of the at least one of the set of odds or the house advantage; and displaying the set of odds for at least one player based on at least one of the received selections. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A gaming system, comprising:
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at least one input device operable to receive selections indicative of respective sets of odds for each of a number of hands of playing cards to be played during a card game, wherein the playing cards of the number of hands of playing cards are physical playing cards; a processor that generates a set of virtual playing card values based on the respective sets of odds indicated by at least one of the received selections; a card handler mechanism operable to deliver the number of hands of playing cards, wherein at least one of the number of hands of playing cards includes playing cards that correspond to the set of virtual playing card values generated by the processor; and at least one display responsive to the at least one input device to display respective house odds for each of the hands of playing cards to be played during a card game. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method of operating a gaming system, the method comprising:
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receiving via at least one input device a respective selection indicative of respective sets of odds for each of a plurality of hands of physical playing cards to be played during a card game; generating by a processor a set of virtual playing card values based on the respective sets of odds indicated by the at least one of the received selections; providing by a card handling mechanism at least one of the plurality of hands of physical playing cards, where the physical playing cards forming at least one of the plurality of hands of playing cards correspond to the set of virtual playing card values generated by the processor; and displaying house odds for each of the plurality of hands of playing cards to be played during a card game based at least in part on the plurality of received selections. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for causing a computer to operate a gaming system, by:
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receiving a respective selection indicative of respective sets of odds for each of a plurality of hands of playing cards to be played during a card game; generating a set of virtual playing card values based on the respective sets of odds indicated by the at least one of the received selections; providing the at least one hand of playing cards, where the playing cards forming the at least one hand of playing cards are physical playing cards and correspond to the set of virtual playing card values pseudo-randomly generated based on respective sets of odds indicated by the at least one of the received selections; and displaying house odds for each of the plurality of hands of playing cards to be played during a card game based at least in part on the plurality of received selections. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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