System and method for concurrently playing multiple communal card poker games

Abstract

A system, method and program for playing multiple, communal-card poker games simultaneously. A plurality of selectable starting hands of cards are presented to a participant. Each of the selectable starting hands represents a potential subset of a resulting poker hand, and does not of itself represent a playable hand. The participant selects one of the starting hands for use in all of the concurrently-played poker games. A plurality of communal-card flops are presented to the participant. The number of communal-card flops displayed corresponds to the number of poker games to be concurrently-played. A plurality of participant resulting poker hands are derived, one for each combination of the participant's selected starting hand and the plurality of communal-card flops. A plurality of remaining resulting poker hands are also derived, one for each combination of non-selected starting hands and each of the communal-card flops. The resulting poker hands for the participant are compared to the remaining resulting poker hands on a per-poker game basis, such that the participant's resulting poker hands and the remaining resulting poker hands associated with corresponding multi-card flops are compared to each other to determine a winning poker hand for each of the concurrently-played poker games.