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Gaming system and method for multiple play wageringRelated Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Games, Card Or Tile Games, Cards Or Tiles ThereforGaming system and method for multiple play wagering description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070222154, Gaming system and method for multiple play wagering. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This application claims priority as a division of U.S. Non-Provisional Application Ser. No. 09/792,372, filed Feb. 23, 2001, which claims priority as a filing based upon U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/185,002, filed Feb. 25, 2000; and this application claims the benefit of such prior applications and incorporate same by reference herein. [0002] This invention relates generally to games of chance such as are found in casinos and other legal gambling establishments and more particularly to a gaming system which can be used to play blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat and poker either at a table or a video machine or slot machine and also provides a technique to prevent bet tampering. [0003] The same gaming system can be applied to the home video, home computer and arcade markets. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0004] In those areas of the United States and the rest of the world where gambling is legal, there is a constant demand and need for new or improved games of chance to attract gamblers to casinos and other gaming establishments. At the same time, experienced players have become familiar with traditional games of chance and gaming machines such as slot machines, video games, blackjack tables, roulette tables, baccarat tables, crap tables and poker tables. Therefore, it is desirable that any new gaming machine or system, which, while taking advantage of this familiarity create new or added interest in the game. [0005] One technique that can be used to increase the attraction of games of chance and lengthen the time in which the players will stay at a particular gaming table or casino is to base the player's ultimate winning payoff not just on a single play of a game but on their success on repeated plays. In other words, a player is given an opportunity to increase his or her payoff odds by winning, losing or tying the game two, three or four consecutive times, for example. Unfortunately, using prior art gaming tables and systems, there has not been an efficient way for casinos and casino dealers to keep track of consecutive wins, losses, or ties by a player at a particular time in order to readily determine and calculate payoffs based on successive wins, losses, or ties. [0006] What is needed, then, is a gaming method and system which can accommodate one or more gamblers while allowing for multiple play wagering, that is, where the player receives an ultimate payoff based upon achieving a pre-selected number of consecutive wins at the game of chance. U.S. Pat. No. 5,570,885 invented by one of the inventors of the present invention, teaches an electronic gaming system for playing such a game. However, it is desirable to provide a simplified, non-electronic and non-electromechanical technique for use in applications where the expense of the equipment disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,570,885 is not warranted. Such a simplified and yet efficient system is lacking in the prior art. U.S. Pat. No. 5,718,431, invented by one of the inventors of the present invention, teaches a simplified, non-electronic and non-electromechanical technique for use in applications where the expense of the equipment disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,570,885 is not warranted; however, the novel features set forth herein are not disclosed in the prior art, including U.S. No. 5,570,885. [0007] Multiple play wagering, where the player receives an ultimate payoff based upon achieving a pre-selected or non pre-selected number of consecutive wins, losses or ties at the game of chance, and games of chance with multiple chip receiving regions, i.e., craps, roulette, baccarat, etc., lack a tracking method and system which can protect the casino against bet tampering. It is also important to provide a simplified protective system that will not unduly slow down the relevant game of chance but will alert casino staff and CCTV surveillance as to any wrongdoing. Such a simplified and yet efficient system is lacking in the prior art. The embodiment set forth under Brief Description of the Invention set forth below is one usage in the game of blackjack. However, the system can be applied to any game of chance wherein multiple play wagering and/or multiple chip receiving regions are utilized. BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION [0008] One object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive tracking method and system that allows a player to receive an enhanced payoff based on achieving a pre-determined number of consecutive wins, losses or ties at a game of chance. [0009] Another object of the gaming system of the present invention is to allow multiple players at a gaming table to place bets based on number of consecutive wins, losses, or ties and to provide means to easily and readily monitor the progress towards winning such bets. [0010] Still another object of the present invention is to provide a game with a consecutive wins, losses or ties bet and which includes a tracking method whereby bet tampering is prevented. [0011] In accordance with these and other objects, which will become apparent below, the gaming method and system of the present invention is based on a consecutive game win/loss/tie monitoring technique which allows an operator, such as a dealer, to keep track of each individual player's consecutive bet outcomes. [0012] The system can be used to play conventional games of chance, such as blackjack, roulette, baccarat, craps and poker or any game of chance wherein the player's chance to win, lose or tie any one bet within a specified number of consecutive rounds is fifty percent (50%) less a reasonable house edge resulting from the inherent rules of the relevant game. The same gaming system can be used to play any game of chance wherein the player's chance to win, lose or tie any one bet within a specified number of consecutive rounds is significantly less than 50%, less a reasonable house edge resulting from the inherent rules the relevant game. The system can be easily incorporated into any conventional game of chance, such as blackjack, in which each player's seating area at the table, or machine, is provided with a player-specific bet selection areas. Bet selection markers are used by the player to indicate how many consecutive wins, losses, or ties the player believes he will achieve in order to receive an enhanced payoff, based on predetermined odds. A player also selects a bet value, which, in accordance with one preferred embodiment of the system, is entered by placing a chip, or chips of the desired denomination upon the desired consecutive win (lose or tie) mark. [0013] A plurality of chip marking locations is provided convenient to a dealer and adjacent to each player's position about a gaming table, or machine such as for example a blackjack table. Chips placed on a consecutive betting region represent only the consecutive bet. Conventional bets will continue to be made by placing a chip or chips on the conventional betting region of each player and separate from the consecutive win, losses or ties betting region. In one preferred embodiment, up to five consecutive wins may be selected by a player, however the method allows an unlimited number of consecutive betting regions representing and signifying the relevant number of consecutive wins, losses or ties to be attempted. Each consecutive win loss or tie betting region preferably contains a number, which identifies the number of consecutive wins, losses or ties the player believes he/she will achieve order to receive an enhanced payoff, based on predetermined odds. [0014] Another embodiment may include a single consecutive bet region whereby the player's selection of the number of consecutive wins, losses or ties to be attempted is eliminated and the consecutive side bet is made without a selection of the number of wins to be attempted. The consecutive bet payouts will be based on a predetermined payoff, which may be printed on the game layout, or on signs at the given table. [0015] In another embodiment the selection of the number of consecutive wins, losses, or ties to be attempted becomes the primary bet and a conventional bet is not required. This embodiment may include a single consecutive bet region whereby the player's selection of the number of consecutive wins, losses or ties to be attempted is not required, or it may be used whereby a plurality of consecutive bet regions are provided convenient to a dealer and adjacent to each player's position about a gaming table or machine. In one preferred embodiment, up to five consecutive wins may be selected by a player; however the method allows an unlimited number of consecutive betting regions representing and signifying the relevant number of consecutive wins, losses or ties to be attempted. Each consecutive betting region preferably contains a number, which identifies the number of consecutive wins, losses or ties the player believes he/she will achieve order to receive a payoff, based on predetermined odds. [0016] The separate chip receiving regions in roulette would include the following "even money" bet categories: black, red, even, odd, 1-18, 19-36, inclusive or any combination thereof and with the use of a single consecutive betting region for each "even money" bet category, reflecting therein the number of consecutive wins or losses to be attempted and the relevant odds therein. This system can be monitored with a lammer added to or placed next to or upon the consecutive betting region after each consecutive win or loss. Once the player loses a consecutive win or loss bet, or the lammers placed on the "even money" category are equal to the number of consecutive wins or losses attempted as marked within the respective bet region, the player's chips are removed or the player is paid for a successful consecutive wins losses bet at the odds posted. Of course, this procedure could be reversed by starting with the number of lammers equaling the number of consecutive wins bet and removing a lammer after each consecutive win or loss. [0017] This same embodiment can also be used to play roulette wherein the players odds to win or lose any one attempt, within a predetermined number of consecutive wins or losses to be attempted, is considerably less than fifty percent (50%). [0018] This embodiment, at the option of the particular casino, will allow a single bet or more than one bet to be placed on any single roulette number 1-36 or 0, or 00, within the consecutive betting region to be located separately from the conventional betting regions of a standard roulette area and closer to the dealer than the conventional betting regions. The odds to be paid for consecutive win or loss bet will be listed separately from the consecutive betting regions. [0019] This particular embodiment of the consecutive bet may be monitored by using lammers to be placed upon or adjacent to the relevant number (betting region) selected by the player. For example: a player bets $1 on number two (2) for three (3) consecutive wins. The first lammer is placed on the chip or chips within the number two (2) betting region, after the ball lands on number two (2). A second lammer is placed on the number two (2) betting mark after the second consecutive win on number two (2). With two (2) lammers on the betting region for number two (2), the entire area (occupied by players and the dealer), is alerted that another consecutive win number two (2) would result in a big payoff. Of course, the procedure could be reversed by starting with the number of lammers equaling the number of consecutive wins bet and removing a lammer after each consecutive win. [0020] Once again, the same separate betting region and monitoring systems as described previously can be used to play other conventional games of chance such as baccarat, five (5) card draw poker, hold-em poker, seven card stud, five card stud, draw low ball, razz (seven card stud low ball), and any other game of chance where the dealer and player's chance of winning a particular bet are nearly even or exactly even. When the players chance of winning a consecutive wins bet is considerably less than even, i.e., a 37-1 chance of a roulette number winning, or a 35-1 chance of a two or twelve rolled in craps, the conventional betting areas and monitoring systems used in roulette preferably apply. [0021] Any poker game can be played with the dealer dealing either individual hands to each player and himself dealt face up or down, or a common hand to all players and himself, dealt face up or down, or any combination thereof. Each player's hand will be either beat or lose to the dealer's hand according to the rules of poker. May or may not make a conventional bet according to the rules of the game, but will select a consecutive wins, loss or ties bet as bet in blackjack. The betting regions will be laid out as in blackjack, the monitoring of the game will be the same as blackjack and the odds for consecutive wins, losses or ties will be appropriately less than blackjack, because there is no inherent casino advantage in the game of poker and its variations. Only an appropriate return for the casino will be deducted from the "true odds" payoff, in order to determine the odds for the relevant number of consecutive wins, losses or ties to be attempted. [0022] In this version the higher the number of successful consecutive wins, loses or ties the larger the payoff. The minimum number of consecutive wins, loses or ties required before a payoff to a player is permitted, will vary depending on the odds of the relevant bet and the relevant game of chance. The consecutive side bet may also include a bonus payment for a player opting to accept a lower number of consecutive wins, losses or ties before a higher number of consecutive wins, losses or ties is attained. This side bet version may be best utilized when the odds of a successful consecutive bet is significantly greater than a blackjack win, for example, selecting a specific number at roulette at 37 to 1 odds or pre-selecting a 2 or 12 to be rolled in a game of craps at 35 to 1 odds. Continue reading about Gaming system and method for multiple play wagering... Full patent description for Gaming system and method for multiple play wagering Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Gaming system and method for multiple play wagering patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. 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