Patent EA-029043-B1 (EA)
Title: Method for playing poker-type card games and game system for the implementation thereof
Inventor: BYKOV GEORGY ANATOLEVICH
IPC: A63F1/00
Filed: 2013-04-23
Abstract: The invention relates to the method of entertainment with the use of electronic devices, which can be used for poker-type card games in gambling venues, in slot machine arcades, and for online entertainment using personal electronic devices with a display. The invention also relates to a system enabling this method to be implemented. The invention can be used to play the computer poker games such as Texas Holdem, Omaha, Zoom, Rush etc., where a flop is put on the table - three common cards that allow to assess the potential of the player's pocket cards and their chances of winning, the turn - an open dealing the fourth common cards and river - dealing the fifth common card. The present invention is aimed at solving the problem of creating a method for playing the poker-type card games and a system for its embodiment, allowing any player, after making a minimum charge, to look at the flop in the game that has been started, but in a parallel drawing. This will increase the attractiveness of the game and the probability of winning for the player, and the organizer will give a possibility of increasing the income due to the receipt from this player of an additional fee. The technical result achieved due to the invention consists in creating new gaming functions allowing to expand the possibilities of the method that provide the poker playing using the electronic devices with increasing the probability of winning by a player with a weak combination of pocket cards. The technical result is achieved due to the fact that the method for playing the poker-type card games is implemented using individual interconnected electronic devices, each of which is provided with a monitor, where the game table is displayed, function buttons, a bet slider, but unlike the prototype, first the collection for the formation of a bank of a parallel drawing is performed, in the next stage an initial collection for starting the main drawing is performed, then on the pre-flop, the method provides for the player, after making a minimum charge, changing the table 2 of the main drawing by the table 4 of the parallel drawing by pressing the function button, while the cards on the tables of the main and parallel drawings are opened simultaneously and are identical, and in the parallel drawing, the players participation in the main drawing is blocked and the participation in the main drawing of the players participating in the parallel drawing is blocked as well. The technical result is also achieved due to the system comprising a game client program hosted by the electronic device, a server game program hosted on the server, video monitors with the ability to display flash animations for viewing by all game participants containing poker table images with function buttons, virtual gaming maps, as well as a set of video displays controlled to provide the changes associated with the game playing; at least one game processor to process the data in order to perform at least the following functions: provide game rules, define a set of virtual playing cards; activating the player on the parallel table that pressed the "Chance" button; blocking on the parallel table the players involved in the main drawing; - transfer the charge of the activated player to the bank of the table of the parallel drawing; block on the main table the players participating in the parallel drawing.