Gaming system and method providing a card game associated with a supplemental pool funded upon an occurrence of a designated outcome and winnable by a player or a dealer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9129486-B2
Application number	US-201213626608-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2012
Priority date	Sep 25, 2012
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

In various embodiments, the gaming system of the present disclosure is configured to operate a card game. For a play of the card game, the gaming system receives a wager, determines a plurality of player cards from a plurality of cards, displays the player cards face up, determines a plurality of dealer cards from the plurality of cards, and displays at least one of the dealer cards face up. The gaming system determines an outcome of the play by comparing the player and the dealer cards. If the outcome is a designated outcome, the gaming system funds a supplemental pool with the received wager. If a supplemental pool payout condition is met, the gaming system provides the supplemental pool to a player. If a supplemental pool reset condition other than the player winning the supplemental pool is met, the gaming system resets the supplemental pool to an initial value.

First claim

The invention is claimed as follows:

1. A gaming system comprising:
a housing;
at least one processor;
at least one display device supported by the housing;
a plurality of input devices supported by the housing, the plurality of input devices including an acceptor, a validator, a wager button, and a cashout button; and
at least one memory device storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to opera…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Nicely Mark C
• Basallo Leandro
• Isaacson Timothy L
• Lew Ricky J

Classifications

• G07F17/3293 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3258

  Physics · mapped topic