Amusement devices: games – Card or tile games – cards or tiles therefor
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-06
2002-08-20
Layno, Benjamin H. (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Card or tile games, cards or tiles therefor
C273S274000, C273S309000, C273S348100, C463S013000, C463S025000, C463S026000, C463S027000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06435506
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention generally relates to methods for playing poker games that provide pay-backs to poker players and, more particularly, relates to a method for playing a poker game that is an improvement to the Caribbean Stud poker game.
BACKGROUND OF THE PRIOR ART
In the past, various poker games have been created for people desiring to play poker. Generally speaking, there are two types of poker games—one type or class is playing to win against other players while the other type or class is playing to win against the dealer.
For the type or class in playing against other players, commonly known poker games comprise five card draw poker, five card stud poker, seven card stud poker, Texas Holdem, Omaha, etc. These poker games have different rules and also variations thereof which may include the use of wild cards, jokers, etc. Some of these poker games provide for high and low hand winners.
For the type or class in playing against the dealer, various poker games have been created such as Caribbean Stud poker. Caribbean Stud poker has become a very popular poker game because of the opportunity to win by obtaining a poker hand better than the dealer's poker hand and also having the possibility of receiving a large bonus or jackpot type payout for obtaining a poker hand that meets one of the jackpot type hands such as a flush (five cards of the same suit i.e. spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs), a full house (three cards of the same rank plus a pair of a different rank i.e. three nines and two jacks, etc.), four of a kind four cards of the same rank plus a fifth card i.e. four kings plus a five, etc.), a straight flush (five cards of the same suit in consecutive order i.e. 4,5,6,7 and 8 all of spades, etc.) and a royal flush (the highest five cards of the same suit in consecutive-order i.e. ten, jack, queen, king and ace of hearts etc.). The jackpot payout is enlarged when each Caribbean Stud game is tied into a progressive jackpot network.
Caribbean Stud poker is presently played in the following manner:
Each player at a single table playing against a single dealer is dealt, in order, together with the dealer five separate (face down for each player) playing cards out of a standard deck of 52 playing cards. The dealer's last card is dealt face up thereby providing the players at the table some indication of the dealer's five card poker hand because 20% of the dealer's poker hand is exposed to view.
Each player, prior to receiving their five playing cards must place a bet (in an amount determined by each casino for the Caribbean Stud poker game) in order to be in the game and thereby receive their five playing cards. For example, a $5 chip is often used as the minimum bet to qualify each player to receive their five playing cards. This chip is placed in a designated region on the table in front of each player which is usually designated as the Ante. If desired, any player can increase the bet to be placed as an Ante bet to the limit that is generally pre-set by the casino operating the Caribbean Stud game for the Ante bet. The importance of the amount of the Ante bet becomes more significant after each player that has placed their Ante bet is dealt their five playing cards.
Prior to each player receiving their five playing cards and after placing the Ante bet to be in the Caribbean Stud game, each player has the option of placing, for example, a one (casino) dollar coin in a slot in front of the Ante region in order to be eligible to receive the progressive bonus jackpot amount for a, for example, Royal Flush poker hand.
This optional one dollar bet to be eligible to receive the progressive bonus jackpot is usually signaled by a (red) light adjacent to the slot thereby alerting the dealer-that that player is eligible to receive the progressive bonus jackpot if the player receives the progressive bonus jackpot five card hand. However, if the player elects not to insert the one dollar coin into the slot, then that player cannot be eligible to receive the progressive bonus jackpot amount even if, for example, that player actually receives the designated progressive bonus jackpot five card poker hand.
After the Ante bet is made by each player at the table and after the election is made to either bet the one dollar to be eligible for the progressive bonus jackpot hand or not bet the one dollar to not be eligible for the progressive bonus jackpot hand, the five playing cards are dealt to each player and to the dealer in consecutive order as set forth above.
Each player now has the present option of either folding or giving up their five playing card hand which means that they will surrender their Ante bet to the dealer or doubling the Ante bet by placing the doubled (Ante) bet in a region on the table in front of the player which is usually designated as the Bet region. Thus, for example, if a five dollar chip is placed in the Ante region, then ten dollars worth of chips has to be bet or placed in the Bet region in order to qualify (this is the second qualification step) the player to contest the dealer's hand. This Bet wager or action by each player serves to “call” the dealer's hand.
After each player has declared his or her intentions on either forfeiting the Ante bet to the dealer or placing the double the Ante bet in the Bet region, then the dealer turns over the dealer's other four cards (which were previously face down in front of the dealer adjacent the one face up card previously exposed by the dealer). At this time, the dealer is required to determine if the dealer's five total cards have a minimum high hand value of at least an Ace and a King or better. This term, “better” means that the dealer's hand will have at least a pair (any too cards of the same value i.e. a pair of tens, etc.), two pair, three of a kind, a straight, a flush, a full house, four of a kind, a straight flush or a Royal Flush which are all better hands than the minimum hand of an Ace and a King that the dealer is required to have to continue play with the players at the dealer's table.
In the event that the dealer's hand does not have the minimum Ace and King hand, then those players who have made both the Ante bet and the double-the-Ante bet in the Bet region will receive both a sum equal to the Ante bet plus their own Ante Bet, however, the double-the-Ante bet in the Bet region will be returned or refunded to each of the players who have made such a bet.
In the other event where the dealer's hand has the minimum Ace and King or better, then there is a contest or comparison between each player's hand and the dealer's hand. If the dealer's hand is better than any player's hand, then that player loses both the Ante bet and the double-the-Ante bet. However, if the dealer's qualified (Ace and King or better) hand is worse than a player's hand, then that player receives back from the dealer the Ante bet plus an amount equal to the Ante bet and also the return of the double-the-Ante bet in the Bet region plus a bonus amount that is paid in accordance with, for example, the following schedule or list: the same amount as the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is between an Ace and King minimum hand and (including) one pair, two times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand has two pair, three times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand has three of a kind, four times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is a straight, five times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is a flush, seven times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is a full house, twenty times the double-the-Ante bet amount it the player's hand is a four of a kind type hand, fifty times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is a straight flush, and one hundred times the double-the-Ante bet amount if the player's hand is a Royal Flush. This is one schedule al payouts and other schedules can be used, if d
Collins Delores R
JNLU, LLC
Layno Benjamin H.
Weiss Harry M.
Weiss Jeffrey
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