Patent ID: 9697674
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G07F

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of gaming systems; one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory mediums having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the apparatus to: determine a plurality of different game types to be available for play in a tournament by a plurality of players, in which the game types are offered at the plurality of gaming systems; facilitate play of the plurality of different game types by the plurality of players as part of the tournament; based on at least one of an expected return on each game type, an expected chance of a winning outcome in each game type, and an average win amount in each game type, determine a normalization factor for each game type; track outcomes of the play of the plurality of different game types by the plurality of different players based on information received from the plurality of gaming systems, in which tracking outcomes includes applying a respective normalization factor to each outcome to normalize winnings from each game type; based on the tracked outcomes, determine a winning player of the tournament from the plurality of players.