Patent ID: 8585502

Claim:
A method for coordinating a distributed game in a gaming system having a polymorphous network of game managers and one or more game terminals, the method comprising: receiving a player request at a dedicated game manager to participate in a distributed game, wherein the dedicated game manager is in direct communication with one or more game terminals, and wherein the dedicated game manager is in direct communication with other game managers in the polymorphous network, wherein each of the game managers in the polymorphous network has full access to each other game manager and game requests from one game manager need not be escalated to a higher level device, wherein the dedicated manager includes a processor; determining, using the processor, whether the dedicated game manager is an appropriate game manager to satisfy the player request; managing play of the distributed game at the dedicated game manager if the dedicated manager is deemed the appropriate game manager for the distributed game; and forwarding the player request to a second game manager if the dedicated game manager is not managing play of the distributed game; wherein none of the dedicated game managers is a central server configured to act as a hierarchical master, wherein dynamic interconnections are based on gaming data, where 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 wherein the determining of the appropriate game manager is decided based off the gaming data.