Gaming devices and methods related to secondary gaming

• US 8,764,538 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2010
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Original Assignee: CFPH LLC (Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P.)
• Inventors: Lutnick, Howard W., Alderucci, Dean P., Gelman, Geoffrey M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coburn, Corbett B
• Application Number:
  US12/693,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20100124960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,617 Days
• Field of Search: 463/16
• US Class Current: 463/16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3258 Cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3272 Games involving multiple players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/329 Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards
• 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, a player may place a bet on one or more previously played games. Other systems and methods are disclosed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed cause the apparatus to;

record in a nontransitory machine-readable memory of a computer betting system data describing multiple plays of a sporting event played by respective primary players;

receive selection criteria from a secondary player, the secondary player being a player that did not participate in the recorded plays, and to receive a wager from the secondary player, the selection criteria to specify plays of the sporting event on which to wager, the wager to specify an outcome of plays the meet the selection criteria, and a wager amount;

select one or more plays that match the secondary player'"'"'s selection criteria; and

after playing out the selected play(s), to compute a payout amount to the secondary player based at least in part on the play and on the wager amount.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

at a time after a recorded play of the sporting event has been presented to a primary player, and the primary player has placed a first wager on the sporting event, and if such prevention is successful, to receive the secondary wager from the secondary player, the computer(s) being programmed to restrict the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager on a sporting event of which the secondary player has prior knowledge of the outcome;

after the secondary wager is received, to present at least one recorded play of the sporting event or the outcome of the sporting event to the secondary player;

after the presenting, to determine an outcome of the secondary wager based on the sporting event, and a payout to the secondary player based on the outcome of the secondary wager.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

after recording the primary player data, to receive at a computer of the computer betting system a wager from a secondary player, the secondary player'"'"'s wager to specify a statistic over a plurality of plays;

compute at a computer of the computer betting system values of the statistic over a randomly-selected plurality of the recorded plays, and to compute a payout for the secondary player based on the wager and the value of the computed statistic.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

at a time after a recorded play of the sporting event has been presented to a primary player, and the primary player has placed a first wager on the sporting event, and if such prevention is successful, to receive the secondary wager from the secondary player, the computer(s) being programmed to restrict the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager on a sporting event of which the secondary player has prior knowledge of the outcome;

after the secondary wager is received, to present at least one recorded play of the sporting event or the outcome of the sporting event to the secondary player.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the plurality of instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine a sporting event on which a primary player placed a first wager, in which the sporting event is to be determined after the sporting event is finished and after the sporting event has been presented to the primary player;

receive a secondary wager from a secondary player, in which the secondary wager is to be received after the sporting event is finished and after the sporting event has been presented to the primary player, the apparatus being designed to restrict the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager on a sporting event of which the secondary player has prior knowledge of the outcome;

present an indication based on the sporting event to the secondary player, in which the presenting is to be performed after the secondary wager is received;

determine an outcome of the secondary wager based on the sporting event; and

provide a payout to the secondary player based on the outcome of the secondary wager;

in which the secondary wager is to be received after the sporting event is finished and after the sporting event has been presented to the primary player.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine the sporting event based at least in part on choosing the sporting event at random from a plurality of sporting events that have finished in the past.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

present the indication based on the sporting event by including presentation of a recreation of the sporting event based on stored information about the sporting event other than video footage of the sporting event.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

present the recreation by including video footage of another sporting event.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

present the recreation by computer generated images generated to disguise the sporting event.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

present the recreation by presenting a display of a different type of sporting event than the sporting event.

11. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

prevent a third player from placing a third wager based on information identifying that the third player placed a bet on the sporting event at the time of the sporting event.

12. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine the sporting event based at least in part on an attribute selected by the secondary player.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

offer to the secondary player attributes for selection, the attributes to be offered to include at least one of a date, a location, the primary player, and an outcome of the sporting event.

14. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

compensate a venue at which the sporting event occurred for use of the sporting event as a basis for the secondary wager.

15. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine the outcome of the secondary wager based at least in part on a determination of the outcome of the secondary wager based on an outcome of the sporting event.

16. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine a second sporting event, in which the second sporting event is determined after the second sporting event is finished;

determine a statistic based on the sporting event and the second sporting event;

determine the outcome of the secondary wager based at least in part on a determination of the outcome of the secondary wager based on the statistic.

17. The apparatus of claim 5, in which the instructions are programmed to cause the apparatus to:

record in a non-transitory machine readable memory of the apparatus data describing multiple plays of a sporting event played by respective primary players;

after recording the primary player data, receive at a computer of the computer betting system a wager from a secondary player, the secondary player to be a player that did not participate in the recorded plays, the wager to specify a statistic over a plurality of plays;

compute at the apparatus values of the secondary player'"'"'s specified statistic over a randomly-selected plurality of the recorded plays, and compute a payout for the secondary player based on the wager and the value of the computed statistic.

18. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by disguising the presentation of the sporting event to the secondary player.

19. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by transforming data of the sporting event to appear as a play of a different game.

20. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by verifying that the secondary player has no prior knowledge of the outcome of the sporting event.

21. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory medium having stored thereon a plurality of instructions that when executed cause the apparatus to;

record in a non-transitory machine readable memory of a computer betting system data describing multiple plays of a sporting event played by respective primary players;

after recording the primary player data, receive at a computer of the computer betting system a wager from a secondary player, the secondary player being a player that did not participate in the recorded plays, the wager to specify a statistic over a plurality of plays;

compute at a computer of the computer betting system values of the secondary player'"'"'s specified statistic over a randomly-selected plurality of the recorded plays, and to compute a payout for the secondary player based on the wager and the value of the computed statistic.

22. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

in the memory/memories of one or more computers of the computer betting system, at a time after a play of the sporting event has finished and the sporting event has been presented to a primary player, and the primary player has placed a first wager on the sporting event, to receive the secondary player'"'"'s wager, the secondary player'"'"'s wager to be determined based on a result of the sporting event, the computer being programmed to restrict the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager on a sporting event of which the secondary player has prior knowledge of the outcome;

after the secondary player'"'"'s wager is received, to present the sporting event or the outcome of the sporting event to the secondary player;

after the presenting, to determine an outcome of the secondary player'"'"'s wager based on the sporting event, and a payout to the secondary player based on the outcome of the secondary wager.

23. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

receive selection criteria from the secondary player, the secondary player'"'"'s wager to specify an outcome of the sporting event and a wager amount;

select one or more of the recorded plays that match the secondary player'"'"'s selection criteria; and

after playing out the selected plays, compute a payout amount to the secondary player based at least in part on the play and on the wager amount.

24. The apparatus of claim 21, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

in the memory/memories of one or more computers of a gaming system, at a time after a sporting event has finished and the sporting event has been presented to a primary player, and the primary player has placed a first wager on the sporting event, to receive a secondary wager from the secondary player, win or loss of the secondary wager for the secondary player to be determined based on a result of the sporting event, the computer being programmed to restrict the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager on a sporting event of which the secondary player has prior knowledge of the outcome;

after the secondary wager is received, to present the sporting event or the outcome of the sporting event to the secondary player;

after the presenting, to determine an outcome of the secondary wager based on the sporting event, and a payout to the secondary player based on the outcome of the secondary wager.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

record in a nontransitory machine-readable memory of a computer betting system data describing multiple plays of the sporting event;

receive selection criteria from the secondary player, the selection criteria to specify plays of the sporting event on which to wager, and to select one or more plays that match the secondary player'"'"'s selection criteria; and

after playing out the selected play(s), to compute a payout amount to the secondary player based at least in part on the play and on the wager amount.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, in which:

to present the sporting event is to include presenting a recreation of the sporting event based on stored information about the sporting event other than video footage of the sporting event.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, in which:

the recreation is to include video footage of another sporting event.

28. The apparatus of claim 26, in which:

the recreation is to include computer generated images, and in which the recreating is to include a disguise to the sporting event.

29. The apparatus of claim 26, in which:

the recreation is to include a display of a different type of sporting event than the sporting event.

30. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by disguising the presentation of the sporting event to the secondary player.

31. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by transforming data of the sporting event to appear as a play of a different game.

32. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein:

the restriction on the possibility that the secondary player may place a wager with prior knowledge is to be effected by verifying that the secondary player has no prior knowledge of the outcome of the sporting event.

33. The apparatus of claim 24, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

determine the sporting event based at least in part on an attribute selected by the secondary player.

34. The apparatus of claim 33, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

offer to the secondary player attributes for selection, the attributes to be offered to include at least one of a date, a location, the primary player, and an outcome of the sporting event.

35. The apparatus of claim 24, the instructions being further programmed to cause the apparatus to:

compensate a venue at which the sporting event occurred for use of the sporting event as a basis for the secondary wager.