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1. A method for providing a secondary wagering contest to a plurality of players involved in the play of a primary wagering game on one or more user computing devices, each user computing device including a display device and communication interface enabling communication within a network including other user computing devices and a secondary contest controller including a game module and a random number generator (RNG) module, the method comprising the steps of:
a) transmitting, by the secondary contest controller, a secondary contest notification to each user computing device relating to placing a wager in the secondary wagering contest and displaying, by the secondary contest controller, the secondary contest notification on the display device of each user computing device in the network prior to the actuation of an instance of the primary wagering game, wherein the secondary contest notification provides information relating to an opportunity to enter a wager in a secondary wagering contest through the communication interface; b) receiving data, by the secondary contest controller, relating to the entry of a secondary contest wager and identifying the user computing device from which the data is received; c) facilitating, by the game module, play of the primary wagering game, generating and outputting, by the RNG module, random numbers to the game module for use in playing at least one of the primary wagering game and the secondary wagering contest, and determining, by the game module, an outcome of the primary wagering game and an outcome of the secondary wagering contest; d) receiving outcome data from the secondary contest controller relating to a subsequent instance of the primary wagering game actuated at each user computing device of the identified computing devices, wherein the outcome data includes a randomly generated result in the primary wagering game for each identified computing device; e) comparing, by the secondary contest controller, the randomly generated result for each identified computing device with a preset criteria for determining an outcome of the secondary wagering contest, wherein the outcome is one of a winning outcome or a non-winning outcome for one or more identified computing devices; f) responsive to the satisfaction of the preset criteria for a winning outcome, displaying, by the secondary contest controller, an award notification on the display device of the one or more identified computing devices satisfying the preset criteria for the winning outcome of an awarding of at least a portion of the secondary contest wagers received; and g) responsive to the satisfaction of the preset criteria for a non-winning outcome, repeating steps d) through g) for the one or more identified computing devices satisfying the preset criteria for the non-winning outcome. |
