Patent ID: 8317616

Claim:
A gaming method, comprising: receiving, at a server, from one or more first client terminals before a game play has begun, at least one purchase request, said at least one purchase request identifying a wager for a player of one or more multi-player games, wherein said one or more multi-player games are games in which two or more players participate; determining, at said server, a game result of said wager for each player in said multi-player game before a game play has begun for any of said players in said multi-player game; storing, at the server, the game result of said wager for said player in a database before the game play has begun; receiving, at the server, from a second client terminal during the game play, a request to reveal the game result of said wager for said player; and sending, from the server, the game result of said wager for said player to the second client terminal.