Gaming system and method providing a multi-hand card game with a new draw hand for a designated hand of cards

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9547959-B2
Application number	US-201414314854-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2014
Priority date	Jun 25, 2014
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a multi-hand card game wherein the gaming system provides a new draw hand for a designated hand of cards. In one embodiment, the gaming system displays a plurality of wagered-on hands of cards. The gaming system determines and displays any awards associated with the wagered-on hands of cards. The gaming system also determines whether any of the wagered-on hands of cards include any designated card combinations. For any of the wagered-on hands of cards including one of the designated card combinations, the gaming system displays a new hand of cards. The gaming system determines and displays any awards associated with each new hand of cards. In various embodiments, the gaming system repeats this process until a terminating condition occurs.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gaming system comprising:
at least one processor;
at least one display device;
at least one input device; 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 operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device, for a plurality of plays of a game, to:
(A) receive a wager to initiate a play of a game including a first quantity of hands of cards, wherein the first quantity of hands of cards includes a base hand of cards and at least one additional hand of cards;
(B) randomly select and display the base hand of cards;
(C) enable the player to select zero, one, or a plurality of the cards from the base hand of cards to hold;
(D) for each of the additional hands of cards, display the held cards from the base hand of cards;
(E) for each of the first quantity of hands of cards:
(i) complete the hand of cards with any needed replacement cards and display the completed hand of cards;
(ii) display any award associated with the completed hand of cards; and
(iii) determine whether the completed hand of cards includes any designated card combination; and

(F) for each completed hand of cards including one of the designated card combinations:
(i) remove the display of said completed hand of cards including the designated card combination;
(ii) after removing the display of said completed hand of cards, display a new hand of cards including the held cards from the base hand of cards;
(iii) complete the new hand of cards with any needed replacement cards and display the new completed hand of cards;
(iv) display any award associated with the new hand of cards; and
(v) determine whether said completed new hand of cards includes any designated card combination.

2. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein each of the designated card combination is a winning card combination based on a paytable.

3. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to for any completed new hand of cards include any designated card combination, repeat (F)(i) to (F)(v).

4. The gaming system of claim 3 , wherein the plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to repeat (F)(i) to (F)(v) until a terminating condition occurs.

5. The gaming system of claim 4 , wherein the terminating condition occurs when there are no completed new hands of cards including any of the designated card combinations.

6. The gaming system of claim 1 , wherein prior to displaying any new hands of cards, the plurality of instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to reconfigure the display of any remaining hands of cards by moving the display of any remaining hands of cards down and creating an open space for any new hands of cards.

7. A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising:
(A)causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions to receive a wager to initiate a play of a game including a first quantity of hands of cards, wherein the first quantity of hands of cards includes a base hand of cards and at least one additional hand of cards;
(B) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one display device to randomly select and display the base hand of cards;
(C) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one input device to enable the player to select zero, one, or a plurality of the cards from the base hand of cards to hold;
(D) for each of the additional hands of cards, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to display the held cards from the base hand of cards;
(E) for each of the first quantity of hands of cards:
(i) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to complete the hand of cards with any needed replacement cards and display the completed hand of cards;
(ii) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one display device to display any award associated with the completed hand of cards; and
(iii) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine whether the completed hand of cards includes any designated card combination; and

(F) for each completed hand of cards including one of the designated card combinations:
(i) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to remove the display of said completed hand of cards including the designated card combination;
(ii) after removing the display of said completed hand of cards, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one display device to display a new hand of cards including the held cards from the base hand of cards;
(iii) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to complete the new hand of cards with any needed replacement cards and display the new completed hand of cards;
(iv) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one display device to display any award associated with the new hand of cards; and
(v) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to determine whether the completed new hand of cards includes any designated card combination.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein each of the designated card combination is a winning card combination based on a paytable.

9. The method of claim 7 , which includes causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to for any completed new hand of cards including one of the designated card combinations, repeat (F)(i) to (F)(v).

10. The method of claim 9 , which includes causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to repeat (F)(i) to (F)(v) until a terminating condition occurs.

11. The method of claim 10 , which including causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to cause the terminating condition occurs when there are no completed new hands of cards including any of the designated card combinations.

12. The method of claim 7 , which includes, prior to displaying any new hands of cards, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the at least one display device to reconfigure the display of any remaining hands of cards by moving the display of any remaining hands of cards down and creating an open space for any new hands of cards.

13. The method of claim 7 , which is executed through a data network.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the data network is an internet.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with at least one display device and at least one input device for a play of the game to:
(A) receive a wager to initiate a play of a game including a first quantity of hands o

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Brown Bradford D
• Cole James
• O'Steen-Wilson Wendy

Classifications

• G07F17/3244

  Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes · CPC title

• G07F17/3293 Primary

  Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack · CPC title