Electronic poker game

Claim 2

An electronic game device for simulating the play of a card game between a dealer and a player comprising, coin acceptor means for registering a player's ante, whereby to initiate the dealing of a dealer's hand and a player's hand; visual display means for the display of said player's hand and at least a part of said dealer's hand; switch means for terminating said game by simulated folding of said player's hand; coin acceptor means for registering a player's bet whereby to initiate the full display of said dealer's hand, electronic comparator means for determining and identifying a winning hand as between the dealer's hand and the player's hand; and when the player's hand is the winning hand, visual display means for displaying the magnitude of the player's winnings.

Claim 3

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 1, including LED means for displaying said ante, said bet, and a player's winnings.

Claim 4

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 2, including electronic counter means for registering a cumulative total of a player's winnings.

Claim 5

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 1, 2, or 3, including dispensing means for ejecting coins commensurate with a player's winnings.

Claim 6

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 4 including coin acceptor means for activating a progressive jackpot component of the game prior to registering a player's ante.

Claim 7

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 5 including electronic counter means for adding a player's winnings derived from said progressive jackpot component, to said cumulative total.

Claim 8

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 3 including switch means for registering a player's bet or ante and decrementing said cumulative total by the amount of said bet or ante.

Claim 9

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 6 including switch means for registering a player's bet, ante, or progressive jackpot participation and decrementing said cumul-ative total by the amount of said bet, ante or progressive jackpot participation.

Claim 10

An electronic game device for simulating the play of a poker card game between a dealer and a player comprising: (a) wager acceptor means for registering a player's ante wager, (b) visual display means for electronically displaying a predetermined number of cards representing a player's hand and a dealer's hand, (c) switch means for allowing the player either to fold in which case the player loses the ante wager, or make a bet, (d) electronic comparator means for comparing the player's hand to the dealer's hand using poker rank as the criterion for comparison, (e) electronic award means responsive to said electronic comparator means such that (1) if the dealer's hand is not at least a predetermined rank, the player wins a preselected amount based on the player's ante wager and the player keeps the bet, and (2) if the dealer's hand is at least a predetermined rank and the dealer's hand is higher than the player's hand, the player loses both the ante wager and the bet, and (3) if the dealer's hand is at least a predetermined rank and the player's hand is higher than the dealer's hand, then the player wins a first predetermined amount on the ante wager and the player wins a second predetermined amount on the bet based on the type of poker hand combination of the player's hand.

Claim 11

An electronic game device for simulating the play of a poker card game between a dealer and a player comprising: (a) wager acceptor means for registering a player's ante wager, (b) visual display means for electronically displaying a predetermined number of cards representing a player's hand and a dealer's hand, (c) switch means for allowing the player either to fold in which case the player loses the ante wager, or make a bet, (d) electronic comparator means for comparing the player's hand to the dealer's hand using poker rank as the criterion for comparison, (e) electronic award means responsive to said electronic comparator means such that (1) if the dealer's hand is not at least a predetermined rank, the player wins a preselected amount based on the player's ante wager and the player keeps the bet, and (2) if the dealer's hand is at least a predetermined rank and the dealer's hand is higher than the player's hand, the player loses both the ante wager and the bet, and (3) if the dealer's hand is at least a predetermined rank and the player's hand is higher than the dealer's hand, then the player wins a first predetermined amount on the ante wager and the player wins a second predetermined amount on the bet based on the type of poker hand combination of the player's hand.

Claim 12

The electronic gaming device of claim 9 wherein the predetermined number of cards is five.

Claim 13

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the visual display means displays the player's cards face up.

Claim 14

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the visual display means initially displays some of the dealer's cards face up and the remainder of the dealer's cards face down.

Claim 15

The electronic game device of claim 12 wherein the visual display means initially displays one of the dealer's cards face up and the rest of the dealer's cards face down.

Claim 16

The electronic game device of claim 12 wherein the visual display means initially displays two of the dealer's cards face up and the rest of the dealer's cards face down.

Claim 17

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the bet is a multiple of the ante wager.

Claim 18

The electronic game device of claim 15 wherein the bet is double the ante wager.

Claim 19

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the cards that are electronically displayed are standard playing cards.

Claim 20

The electronic game device of claim 17 wherein the predetermined rank is an Ace-King combination.

Claim 21

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the preselected amount that a player wins on the player's ante wager is one-to-one odds.

Claim 22

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the first predetermined amount that a player wins on the ante wager is one-to-one odds.

Claim 23

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the second predetermined amount that a player wins on the bet is according to the following schedule: Poker Hand Odds Royal Flush 250-to-1 Straight Flush 50-to-1 Four of a Kind 20-to-1 Full House 7-to-1 Flush 5-to-1 Straight 4-to-1 Three of a Kind 3-to-1 Two Pair 2-to-1 Any other hand 1-to-1

Claim 24

The electronic game device of claim 9 wherein the wager acceptor includes a coin acceptor for receipt of a gaming token to register the ante wager.

Claim 25

The electronic game device of claim 9 including a wager ante activating button that deducts the amount of the ante from a credit LED display and registers the ante as being made on an ante LED display.

Claim 26

The electronic game device of claim 9 including a coin acceptor adapted to receive a gaming token to register a bet.

Claim 27

The electronic game device of claim 9 including a bet activating button that deducts the amount of the bet from a credit LED display and registers the bet as being made on a bet LED display.

Claim 28

The electronic game device of claim 9 including an LED display for automatically displaying a player's winning amount.

Claim 29

The electronic game device of claim 9 including means for dispensing the amount the player wins into a tray mounted on the electronic device.

Claim 30

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 9 including LED means for displaying said ante wager, said bet and a player's winnings.

Claim 31

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 28 including electronic counter means for registering a cumulative total of a player's winnings.

Claim 32

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 9, 28 or 29 including dispensing means for ejecting coins commen-surate with a player's winnings.

Claim 33

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 9 including wager acceptor means for activating a progressive jackpot component of the game prior to registering a player's ante wager.

Claim 34

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 31 including electronic counter means for registering a cumulative total of a player's winnings derived from said progressive jackpot component.

Claim 35

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 31 including switch means for registering a player's bet or ante wager and decrementing said cumulative total by the amount of said bet or ante wager.

Claim 36

An electronic game device in accordance with claim 32 including switch means for registering a player's bet, ante or progressive jackpot participation and decrementing said cumul-ative total by the amount of said bet, ante or progressive jackpot participation.

Claim 37

The electronic game device of claim 32 wherein a player's winnings from said progressive jackpot component is a percentage of the progressive jackpot.

Claim 38

The electronic game device of claim 35 wherein the percentage is computed as follows: Royal Flush 100% Straight Flush 10% Four of a Kind 1%

Claim 39

The electronic game device of claim 32 wherein a player's winnings from said progressive jackpot component is a fixed number of tokens.

Claim 40

The electronic game device of claim 37 wherein the fixed number of tokens is computed as follows: Full House 50 tokens Flush 25 tokens

Claim 41

The electronic game device of claim 32 wherein a player's winnings from said progressive jackpot component is a combination of a percentage of the progressive jackpot and a fixed amount of tokens.

Claim 42

The electronic game device of claim 39 wherein the combination of percentages and fixed amount is computed as follows: Royal Flush 100% Straight Flush 10% Four of a Kind 1% Full House 50 tokens Flush 25 tokens

Claim 43

The electronic game device of claim 32 wherein the progressive jackpot is progressive in that any amount of the jackpot remaining unwon is carried over to the next hand.

Claim 44

The electronic game device of claim 32 including means allowing the house to collect a percentage of each wager for said progressive jackpot component as the house's fee for providing the progressive jackpot.

Claim 45

The electronic game device of claim 42 wherein the percentage is between 3% and 5%.