Patent ID: 8550918

Claim:
A gaming system, comprising: a polymorphous network of game managers, each game manager being directly connected with the other game managers, wherein none of the game managers is a central device configured to act as a hierarchical master, each game manager having full access to each other game manager where game requests from each game manager need not be escalated to a higher level device and dynamic interconnections being based on a game manager criteria or gaming data, wherein the gaming data is a local game request rate at the game manager, a local game session rate occurring at the game manager, a local forward rate occurring at the game manager, or a local provide rate occurring at the game manager; and a plurality of groups of gaming machines, a first group of gaming machines only in direct communication with a first game manager, the first game manager receiving game requests from the first group of gaming machines to initiate a game, the first game manager initiating the game when a sufficient number of game requests are received by the first game manager, and the first game manager forwarding the game requests to an appropriate game manager if the first game manager receives an insufficient number of game requests, the appropriate game manager decided based off the gaming data.