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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Olympian Gaming Llc, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Inventor:
Stacy Friedman, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Olympian Gaming LLC, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/3293 (2013.01); G07F 17/3244 (2013.01);
Abstract
In electronic video poker games, the contents of the deck after the deal of an initial set of cards may be modified to increase or decrease the likelihood of awards when compared to an unmodified deck. Cards may be added, removed, or reordered to alter winning probabilities after an initial set of cards are dealt. In a video poker game embodiment dealt from a standard 52-card deck, when the player holds cards of a single rank (a pair, three-of-a-kind, or four-of-a-kind), the game dynamically adds one or more cards of the held rank to the deck to enable the player to potentially achieve five-of-a-kind.