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System, method and apparatus to produce decks for and operate games played with playing cards

  • US 9,101,820 B2
  • Filed: 11/09/2006
  • Issued: 08/11/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system to form sets of physical playing cards, the system comprising:

  • an input subsystem comprising at least one input device that includes a user interface incorporating elements to receive user input indicative of;

    a desired theoretical hold of a plurality of card games including at least a first card game having a first set of rules and a second card game conducted contingent upon a player achieving a successful outcome in the first card game and having a second set of rules, the plurality of card games played using playing cards drawn from a set of playing cards;

    the first set of rules and the second set of rules used in the plurality of card games played using the set of playing cards; and

    a progressive jackpot parameter indicative of a portion of each wager on the card game that funds a progressive jackpot winnable by one or more players playing the card game;

    a processing subsystem comprising at least one processor and processor-readable nontransitory storage medium communicably coupled to the at least one card printer interface and to the at least one input device that, in operation, automatically determines a composition of each printed set of physical playing cards based at least in part on the received input, each printed set of physical playing cards including both a number of standard playing cards used in determining an outcome of the first card game and a number of bonus playing cards used in determining the outcome of the first card game and an outcome of the second card game; and

    at least one card printer interface that, in operation, provides one or more output signals to a communicably coupled playing card printer that prints each set of physical playing cards based on the composition of the respective set of physical playing cards determined by the at least one processor.

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