Patent ID: 7727060
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. An on-line poker game system, comprising: a. a card room containing a poker table with designated seats to be assigned to physically located and remotely located players; b. at least one dealer assigned to said poker table, said dealer not assigned to a designated seat to be assigned to players physically located or players remotely located, said dealer deals playing cards to designated seats on said poker table; c. at least two players assigned to said designated seats at said poker table with at least one player being located at a remote location from said card room, d. a wide area network; e. a means for imaging face down playing cards includes a transparent panel located on said poker table at or near said designated seat and a private card camera aimed to view the bottom surface of a playing card placed face down on said transparent panel, said means for imaging located at each said designated seat assigned to each said player at a remote location, said private card camera being coupled to said wide area network to transmit an image of the face down cards only to said remote player assigned to said designated seat; f. a single deck of fifty-two standard size playing cards to be played at said poker table; g. at least one public card camera located above said poker table or at or near each said designated seat used to create and transmit an image of face up cards dealt on said poker table; h. a game logic server including working memory with at least one poker game managing software program loaded therein, said poker game managing software program enabling said game logic server to act as a state machine to managing a poker game played between said players assigned to said designated seats at said poker table; i. a web server connected to said wide area network and to said game logic server; j. a remote computer operated by said each player at a remote location and assigned to one said designated seat on at said poker table, said remote computer including working memory, said remote computer connected to said wide area network, and a display; and, k. a client side software program loaded into said working memory of each said remote computer operated by a player located at a remote location, said client side software program used to present a menu listing the type of poker game or the number of poker tables available, said client side software program used to connect via said wide area network to said game logic server and to receive instructions and data from said game logic server, said client side software program also used to communicate with said public card camera to display the images of face-up playing cards dealt on said poker table and to communicate with said means for imaging face down playing cards to display the face-down playing cards dealt to said designated seat assigned to said player at said remote location, said client side software program also used to input poker game instructions from said player at said remote location via said remote computer to said game logic server.