Patent ID: 7458891

Claim:
A method of pari-mutuel gaming, comprising: receiving a plurality of bets regarding a result of a game for each of a plurality of users, wherein each bet has an associated unit stake and wherein the result of the game for each user is based on a set of rules and one or more inputs; assigning each received bet to one of a plurality of sporting events, each sporting event corresponding to one of a plurality of pari-mutuel wager pools; and for a particular sporting event corresponding to a particular one of the plurality of pari-mutuel wager pools: determining a value of the particular pari-mutuel wager pool, the value comprising at least a portion of the total of the unit stakes of the received bets assigned to the particular sporting event; for each received bet assigned to the particular sporting event, determining one or more inputs for the game based on event results from the particular sporting event; for each received bet assigned to the particular sporting event, determining a result of the game based at least on the set of rules and the one or more determined inputs for that bet; for each received bet assigned to the particular sporting event, determining whether the bet is a winning bet based on the result of the game for that bet; and for each determined winning bet, determining an amount of a payout based at least on the unit stake associated with that bet, the total unit stake associated with all determined winning bets, and the value of the particular pari-mutuel wager pool for the particular sporting event.