Patent ID: 8647187
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A gaming workstation for playing a variable payout game featuring a pay table, comprising: 1) a display; 2) a processing unit; and 3) a memory storing a gaming application for execution by the processing unit, wherein the gaming application: a) communicates with a central gaming server to receive datagrams containing outcomes of play of the variable payout game, the outcomes of play in accordance with an initial, randomly selected, payout percentage for the variable payout game; b) presents the outcomes of play on the display; and c) provides data to the central gaming server for purposes of enabling the central gaming server to trigger an automatically and randomly selected redetermination of the payout percentage for the game; and wherein the pay table for the game does not change for further iterations of the game after the redetermination of the payout percentage for the game.