Patent ID: 8672735
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An on-line poker game system, comprising: a. a card room containing a poker table with designated seats located thereon; b. at least one dealer assigned to said poker table, said dealer used to deal playing cards used in a poker game to designated seats on said poker table assigned to players physically located at said poker table or players remotely located from said card room; 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. transparent panel located on said poker table at or near each said designated seat; f. a private card camera aimed to view the bottom surface of a playing card placed face down on said transparent panel, said private card camera coupled to said wide area network to transmit an image of the face down cards placed on said transparent panel only to said remote player assigned to said designated seat; g. a single deck of fifty-two standard size playing cards to be played at said poker table; h. 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 playing cards dealt on said poker table; i. means for verifying the identity of each public card as it is dealt on said table; j. means for verifying the identity of each said private card as it is dealt on said table; k. 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, said game logic server being connected to said means for verifying the identity of said private cards and said means for verifying the identity of said public cards so that card identity therefrom is recorded into a game file; l. a web server connected to said wide area network and to said game logic server; m. 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, means for connecting said remote computer connected to said wide area network, and a display; and, n. a game software program used to present the image of a poker table with designated seats assigned to live or remote players on said display of said remote players assigned to one said designated seat at said poker table, said game software program also used to present images of face-up playing cards dealt on said poker table on said displays operated by all said remote players and to present images of face down playing cards dealt to said designated seat assigned to said remote player to said display used by said remote player, said game software program also used to receive poker game instructions from said remote player.