Game of chance systems and methods

• US 8,758,111 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Issued: 06/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Lutnick, Howard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): TORIMIRO, ADETOKUNBO OLUSEGUN
• Application Number:
  US13/536,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20130116032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 273/292, 463/6, 463/16, 463/20, 463/25, 463/27, 463/30, 463/40
• US Class Current: 463/16
• 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 17/3223 Architectural aspects of a gaming system, e.g. internal configuration, master/slave, wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3232 wherein the operator is informed
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3279 wherein the competition is one-to-one, e.g. match
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

In various embodiments, players may wager regarding multiple outcomes.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, a number of games selected by a player;

receiving, by the computing device, a number of parlays selected by the player, in which each parlay includes the number of games based on selection of the number of games by the player;

for each parlay of the number of parlays, receiving, by the computing device, a selection of a respective comparison between two possible events in the respective parlay;

receiving, by the computing device, an indication of placement of a parlay wager defined by the number of games, the number of parlays, and the selected comparisons;

determining, by the computing device, results of a series of games that includes the number of games multiplied by the number of parlays;

for each consecutive and mutually exclusive set of the number of games in the series of games, determining, by the computing device, whether a selected respective comparison is true, in which each consecutive and mutually exclusive set defines a respective parlay of the number of parlays and the selected respective comparison includes the selected respective comparison for the respective parlay; and

determining, by the computing device, whether the player wins the parlay wager based on whether each selected respective comparison is true for every respective parlay of the number of parlays.

2. The method of claim 1, in which the series of games includes common games for which at least some are used to determine results of wagers by a plurality of other players.

3. The method of claim 2, in which an identity of the series of games is determined out of a larger on going sequence of games in response to the placement of the parlay wager such that the first game in the series occurs as a next game in the sequence of games.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second number of games selected by a second player;

receiving a second number of parlays selected by the second player, in which each parlay includes the second number of games based on selection of the second number of games by the second player;

for each parlay of the second number of parlays, receiving a second selection of a respective comparison between two possible events in the respective parlay;

receiving an indication of placement of a second parlay wager defined by the second number of games, the second number of parlays, and the second selected comparisons, in which the second number of parlays is different from the number of parlays and the second number of games is different than the number of games;

for each second consecutive and mutually exclusive set of the second number of games in the series of games up to the second number of parlays, determining whether a second selected respective comparison is true, in which each second consecutive and mutually exclusive set defines a respective parlay of the second number of parlays and the second selected respective comparison includes the second selected respective comparison for the respective parlay; and

determining whether the second player wins the second parlay wager based on whether each second selected respective comparison is true for every respective parlay of the second number of parlays.

5. The method of claim 4, in which the number of games multiplied by the number of parlays is the same as the second number of games multiplied by the second number of parlays, and in which the same series of games is used for resolving the parlay wager and the second parlay wager based on a similar placement time of the parlay wager and the second parlay wager.

6. The method of claim 5, in which an identity of the series of games is determined for both the parlay wager and the second parlay wager out of a larger on going sequence of games in response to the placement of the parlay wager and the second parlay wager such that the first game in the series occurs as a next occurring game in the sequence of games after the placement of either the parlay wager and the second parlay wager and both the parlay wager and the second parlay wager.

7. The method of claim 4, in which the second number of games multiplied by the second number of parlays is less than the first number of games multiplied by the first number of parlays so that the games from the series used to resolve the second parlay wager is a subset of the series that includes a number equal to the second number of games multiplied by the second number of parlays.

8. The method of claim 7, in which an identity of the series of games is determined out of a larger on going sequence of games in response to the placement of the parlay wager such that a first game in the series occurs as a next game in the sequence of games and in which an identity of the subset of games is determined in response to the placement of the second parlay wager such that a first game in the subset occurs as a next game in the series.

9. The method of claim 1, in which each game of the series of games includes a game based on results of multiple subgames.

10. The method of claim 9, in which each subgame includes a roulette game.

11. The method of claim 9, in which each subgame includes a game on which a second player may place an independent wager.

12. The method of claim 1, in which each comparison includes a comparison between one characteristic of game results and another characteristic of game results.

13. The method of claim 12, in which the comparison includes at least one of a greater than, a less than, and equal to, in which the first characteristic includes at least one of a number of a particular outcome, and a number of results have a first parameter, and in which the second characteristic includes at least one of a number of a second particular outcome, and a number of results have a second parameter.

14. The method of claim 13, in which the comparison includes a greater than and in which the first characteristic includes outcomes that are red in roulette, and the second characteristic includes outcomes that are black in roulette.