Patent ID: 6511068
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
A method for electronically facilitating concurrent play of multiple, communal-card poker games by a participant, comprising:displaying a plurality of selectable starting hands of cards on a display device, wherein each of the selectable starting hands represents a potential subset of a resulting poker hand; allowing the participant to select one of the plurality of selectable starting hands via a user interface; displaying a plurality of multi-card flops on the display device, wherein each of the multi-card flops displayed corresponds to one of the concurrently-played poker games; deriving a plurality of participant resulting poker hands, one for each combination of the participant's selected starting hand and the plurality of multi-card flops; deriving a plurality of remaining resulting poker hands, one for each combination of non-selected ones of the starting hands and the plurality of multi-card flops; and comparing the participant resulting poker hands to the remaining resulting poker hands on a per-poker game basis, such that the participant resulting poker hands and the remaining resulting poker hands associated with corresponding multi-card flops are compared.