Gambling games

• US 7,344,440 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2003
• Issued: 03/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CV on NET NV
• Original Assignee: CV on NET NV
• Inventors: Shotten, Ishai, Gonen, Alon
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno; Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US10/426,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20030199313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• Field of Search: 273/292, 273/309, 273/274, 463/12, 463/13
• US Class Current: 463/13
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements

Abstract

A method of managing a gambling game having a banker role and one or more player roles. The method includes registering one or more users in a banker queue of users interested in being bankers of the game, registering one or more users in a player queue of users interested in being players in the game, selecting one or more users from the banker queue and one or more users from the player queue and playing the game by the selected users, the one or more users from the banker queue performing the banker role and the one or more users from the user queue acting as players.

Claims

1. A method of managing a gambling game having a banker role and one or more player roles, comprising:

registering one or more users in a banker queue of users interested in being bankers of the game, said banker queue having a banker score for each of the one or more users, said banker score representing for each user the entitlement of the user to serve as the banker;

registering one or more users in a player queue of users interested in being players in the game;

selecting one or more users from the banker queue and one or more users from the player queue; and

playing the game by the selected users, the one or more selected users from the banker queue assuming the banker role, by receiving player wagers and covering the payment of player gains, and the one or more users selected from the user queue acting as players,

wherein both the users in the player queue and the users in the banker queue are players not associated with a management of the game.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein said banker score for each users is determined according to the order of entrance of the users to the player queue.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein said banker score for each user is determined according to previous playing history of the user in games managed by the management of the game.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the management of the game manages a plurality of games forming a casino and wherein the banker score depends on one or more of a total amount of wagers offered by the user in the casino, a number of rounds played by the user in the casino, net losses of the user in the casino and previously accrued revenues of the user in acting as banker in the casino.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting users which did not register recently in the player queue.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a single-user game.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game by the selected users comprises splitting the role of banker between a plurality of users from the banker queue.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein splitting the banker role between the plurality of users comprises splitting responsive to a credit status of one or more of the users before the management of the game.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing the game with at least one rule parameter of the game determined by at least one of the one or more users from the banker role.

10. A method .according to claim 9, wherein the at least one rule parameter comprises the maximal wager of the game.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a well-known casino games.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein playing the game comprises playing a software provided gambling game.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein playing the software provided gambling game comprises playing a game provided over a communication network.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein the gambling game belongs to a casino including a plurality of games and wherein registering one or more users in a banker queue of the game comprises registering at least one of the users in banker queues of a plurality of games of the casino responsive to a single user selection.

15. A method according to claim 14, wherein registering the at least one of the users in banker queues of a plurality of games comprises registering the user in the banker queues of all available games which require at least or at most a specific credit sum before the management of the game, for becoming banker.

16. A method according to claim 1, wherein selecting the one or more users from the banker queue comprises selecting responsive to a credit status of the users in the queue before the management of the game.

17. A method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the users registered in the banker queue or the player queue is registered responsive to a request received over a cellular network.

18. A method according to claim 1, comprising transmitting a message to the selected banker reporting the playing of the game, using a cellular messaging method.

19. Gambling apparatus, comprising:

an input interface for receiving indications from users interested in being players in a gambling game and users interested in being banker in the gambling game; and

a processor which selects, in accordance with a banker queue, one or more users interested in being banker and one or more users, interested in being players, and determines the results of a gambling genie in which the one or more users selected from the users interested in being banker perform the banker role and the one or more selected users interested in being players act as players,

wherein said banker queue has a banker score for each of the users, said banker score representing for each user the entitlement of the user to serve as the banker.

20. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the input interface receives indications over a communication network.

21. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the input interface receives indications over the internet.

22. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the processor selects substantially all the users from which indications of being interested, in being banker were received that have a sufficient banker score for receiving a respective portion of the banker role.

23. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the input interface is adapted to receive from at least one user an attribute of a plurality of games for which the user wants to serve as banker.

24. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the processor determines said banker score for each user in accordance with the order in which said input interface receives the indications from the users that they are interested in being banker.

25. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the processor selects the one or more users interested in being banker responsive to said banker scores.

26. Apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the input interface is adapted to receive indications over a cellular network.

27. A method of managing a gambling game having a banker role and one or more player roles, comprising:

registering one or more users in a banker queue of users interested in being bankers of the game, said banker queue having a banker score for each of the one or more users, said banker score representing for each user the entitlement of the user to serve as the banker, said banker score for each user being determined according to the order of entrance of the user to the player queue;

registering one or more users in a player queue of users interested in being players in the game;

selecting one or more users from the banker queue and one or more users from the player queue; and

playing the game by the selected users, the one or more selected users from the banker queue assuming the banker role, by receiving player wagers and covering the payment of player gains, and the one or more users selected from the user queue acting as players,

wherein both the users in the player queue and the users in the banker queue are players not associated with a management of the game.