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Method and apparatus for playing a poker-type card game
Assignee: New Vision Gaming and Dev Inc
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Filing: 1996-09-30
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Granted: 1997-09-09
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Expires: 2016-09-30
Abstract
Abstract A casino card game that allows players to wager against the casino using the rules of stud poker. A number of stud poker hands are dealt as lines on a playing surface and players wager as to which hand will have the highest stud poker ranking. The playing surface has a dealer position including a line for each hand dealt, and player positions in a semicircle around the dealer position, each including a location at which wagers are placed. Game options include choosing the hand with the lowest ranking instead of the highest ranking, having indicators that indicate the hands with the currently highest and/or lowest ranking, requiring an ante or vigorish if only two hands are played, playing with more than one deck of playing cards, allowing one of the players to be the bank, playing on a video machine, a personal computer, a slot machine, over an on-line computer network, or on another type of one-way or interactive gaming or entertainment equipment, and playing with a match jackpot and/or a tough beat jackpot.
Inventors
- 👤 John Feola
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-04 15:06
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F3/00; A63F3/00003; A63F3/00157; A63F2003/00996
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
102 words
A method of playing a poker-type game with at least one standard deck of 52 playing cards, said method comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a stud poker game; (b) successively dealing rounds of said cards to build up a plurality of stud poker hands thereof; (c) prior to and during said dealing, at least one player sporadically wagering on selected ones of said hands; (d) at least one of said hands having a winning combination of said cards when said dealing is complete; and (e) any of said wagers identifying said at least one of said hands constituting a winning wager.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
102 words
A method of playing a poker-type game with at least one standard deck of 52 playing cards, said method comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a stud poker game; (b) successively dealing rounds of said cards to build up a plurality of stud poker hands thereof; (c) prior to and during said dealing, at least one player sporadically wagering on selected ones of said hands; (d) at least one of said hands having a winning combination of said cards when said dealing is complete; and (e) any of said wagers identifying said at least one of said hands constituting a winning wager.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein said stud poker game is selected from the group consisting of 5-card stud and 7-card stud.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein said winning combination has the highest stud poker ranking of said hands.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein said winning combination has the lowest stud poker ranking of said hands.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
43 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein, prior to said dealing, said at least one player chooses whether said winning combination has the highest stud poker ranking of said hands or the lowest stud poker ranking of said hands.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein, prior to said dealing, said at least one player wagers a vigorish.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein said sporadic wagering occurs only prior to said dealing.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
22 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein said sporadic wagering occurs after each of said rounds is dealt.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
57 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein a match jackpot is provided, at least one jackpot player, prior to said dealing, wagering a match bet in said match jackpot, said at least one jackpot player winning a predetermined portion of said match jackpot if at least two of said hands have winning combinations.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
92 words
The method of playing a poker-type game of claim 1 wherein a tough beat jackpot is provided, at least one jackpot player, prior to said dealing, wagering a tough beat bet in said tough beat jackpot, a predetermined portion of said tough beat jackpot being won by said at least one jackpot player after said hands are dealt if at least two of said hands have ranked combinations and one of said at least two of said hands is ranked higher than the remainder of said at least two of said hands.
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