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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2012
Nicholas Demino, Rochester, NY (US);
Timothy Neary, Rosemount, MN (US);
Nicholas Demino, Rochester, NY (US);
Timothy Neary, Rosemount, MN (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method for conducting pari-mutuel wagering on an multi-action event, comprising the steps of providing at least one wagering computing system for ranking of participants in the event; establishing preliminary odds of winning a wager, based in part upon the rankings, for a plurality of individual actions of the multi-action event; accepting wagers for each of the plurality of individual actions; pooling respective wagers for each of the plurality of individual actions into a respective action-specific pool; calculating, using the wagering computing system, final odds of winning each of the plurality of individual actions using the action-specific pool; and paying winnings as determined by the final odds to one or more bettors who wagered a correct outcome for each of the plurality of individual actions.