Patent ID: 8585495
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of administering a parlay-based tournament playable by a plurality of players, the tournament including a plurality of successive games, each game having a ticket pool and a plurality of game results, wherein an administration computer administers the parlay-based tournament, the method comprising: (a) identifying a first game; (b) accepting ticket orders from a plurality of players prior to the outcome of the first game without the administration computer informing each player of the game results selected in the ticket orders of the other players, each ticket selecting a game result from the plurality of game results for the first game and one or more successive games, the total amount of accepted ticket orders defining the ticket pool for the first game; (c) identifying the tickets in the ticket pool that successfully selected the game result of the first game; (d) identifying a second game; (e) parlaying only the tickets that successfully selected the first game result to the second game, the total amount of parlayed tickets defining the ticket pool for the second game, wherein the ticket pool for the second game is smaller than the ticket pool for the first game; (f) prior to the outcome of the second game, the administration computer identifying the game result of each parlayed ticket from the plurality of game results for the second game; (g) identifying using the administration computer the tickets in the ticket pool of the second game that successfully selected the game result of the second game; (h) identifying one or more additional successive games; (i) parlaying only the tickets that successfully selected the second game result to one or more additional successive games, the ticket pool for each of the successive games being defined by the tickets that successfully selected the previous game result; (j) for each of the one or more additional successive games, prior to the outcome of the successive game, the administration computer identifying the game result of each parlayed ticket from the plurality of game results for the successive game; and (k) for each of the one or more additional successive games, identifying using the administration computer the tickets in the ticket pool of the successive game that successfully selected the game result, wherein after completion of the first game and the one or more successive games, each successfully parlayed ticket selecting game results for additional successive games, and wherein when game results are selected, less than all of the game results are selected.