Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Patent
1997-08-14
1998-10-06
Layno, Benjamin H.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
273292, A63F 100
Patent
active
058169164
ABSTRACT:
The method commences with dealing the player an initial five card poker hand from a standard deck of playing cards and the cards are displayed in five locations on the video display screen. Any cards from the initial deal of five cards that match in card rank are grouped together and stacked on top of each other and positioned at a single card location. Replacement cards for these matching cards are then dealt from the standard deck of playing cards so that all five card locations of the initial deal of the cards are filled. If any of the replacement cards match in card rank, again the cards are grouped together and still more replacement cards are dealt until all five card locations have cards or groups of cards of different ranks. The initial deal stops when the last card dealt does match any of the existing cards. The player then selects which of the cards in the five locations he wishes to discard and which he wishes to hold. Replacement cards for the discarded cards are then dealt and displayed to the player. The final hand is determined using all of the cards shown on the display screen including the stacked cards. Poker hand rankings are used to determine winning hand combinations and a payout schedule is provided to award the player based on a winning hand combination achieved. This method provides the player a greater number of draw poker options to achieve a winning five card poker hand.
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Layno Benjamin H.
Roethel John Edward
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