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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jay S. Walker, Ridgefield, CT (US);
James A. Jorasch, Stamford, CT (US);
Magdalena Mik, Greenwich, CT (US);
Jason Krantz, Wilton, CT (US);
Assignee:
Walker Digital, LLC, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for operating a video poker machine which includes the steps of populating a primary poker hand with a plurality of playing cards, identifying discard cards to be discarded from the populated primary poker band, populating a secondary poker hand with the discard cards, populating the primary poker hand to replace the discard cards discarded therefrom, thereby forming a final primary poker hand, and determining a payout based at least upon the playing cards in the final primary poker hand.