Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Reexamination Certificate
2004-10-05
2010-11-30
Hotaling, II, John M (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
C463S002000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07841933
ABSTRACT:
A multi-level single elimination sports tournament with wagering for a field of players divided into groups of generally equal size. Each group competes within itself in a series of play sequences, such as a series of golf holes. Each play sequence comprises at least one competitive play action toward a goal, such as one or more golf strokes toward a hole. The players wager after each play action on their expected results in the current play sequence. Players are eliminated when they can no longer meet a minimum ante on the next play sequence. A round of the tournament is completed when only a single player remains in each group. The survivors are divided into new groups for another round. This continues until a last round that has only one group. A single winner survives, and is awarded most of the pot.
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Hotaling, II John M
Snyder Kevin J.
Stewart John V.
World Series of Golf, Inc.
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