Patent ID: 8715069

Claim:
An enhanced head-to-head hybrid game system, comprising: a gambling game comprising a real world engine constructed to provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits for a wager of an amount of real world credits in the gambling game; an entertainment software engine constructed to provide an entertainment game providing an outcome of game world credit earned upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game while utilizing a resource of the entertainment game; a game world engine constructed to manage the entertainment software engine and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon the player's utilization of the resource during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager of the amount of real world credits in the gambling game and generation of the randomly generated payout of real world credits for the gambling game for the wager of the amount of real world credits, to the gambling game; and a global betting manager constructed to: receive player performance measurements for the player from the game world engine, the player performance measurements including the outcome of game world credit earned upon the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game while utilizing the resource of the entertainment game and the amount of real world credits utilized by the player in the wager of the amount of real world credits as triggered in the gambling game by the utilization of the resource of the entertainment game; determine eligibility of the player for play in a tournament and assign by the global betting manager a handicap for the tournament to the player based upon a ratio of the game world credit earned as the outcome of the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game and the amount of real world credits utilized by the player in the wager as triggered in the gambling game upon the player's utilization of the resource during the player's skillful execution of the entertainment game while earning the game world credit; and send information concerning tournament eligibility and the assigned handicap to the game world engine that configures the game world engine to implement the assigned handicap and tournament eligibility within the enhanced head-to-head hybrid game.