Patent ID: 8216056
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: A63F,G07F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a computing device, a first game played by a first player from a plurality of games played by a respective plurality of first players to be a featured game; offering, by the computing device, a plurality of second players an opportunity to bet on the first game in response to determining the featured game; receiving, by the computing device from a second player, a first bet that (1) a first set of cards dealt in the first game will match a first description of the first set of cards, in which the first description is chosen by the second player, and that (2) a second set of cards dealt in the first game will match a second description of the second set of cards, in which the second description is chosen by the second player, in which the first description and second description each include at least one of a respective plurality of suits and a respective plurality of ranks of cards, and in which each of the first description and the second description include a description of a respective plurality of cards; determining, by the computing device, the first set of cards that are dealt to the first player in the first game; determining, by the computing device, the second set of cards that are dealt to a first dealer in the first game; facilitating, by the computing device, a payout to the second player based on the first bet in response to a determination that the first description matches the first set of cards and that the second description matches the second set of cards, in which the payout is not based on whether the first player wins the first game; determining, by the computing device, a second game played by a third player from a plurality of games played by a respective plurality of third players to be the featured game after the first game was the featured game; and offering the plurality of second players the opportunity to bet on the second game instead of the first game in response to the determination that the second game is the new featured game.