ONLINE VARIANT OF TEXAS HOLD 'EM POKER

摘要

An online variant of the game of Hold 'Em poker allows one or all of the players to remain in a game with an option of checking or making specific wagering amounts in first play wagers, being limited in the size of subsequent available play wagers or prohibited from making additional play wagers if a first play wager has been made, being limited in the size of available later play wagers if a first or earlier play wager has been made, and having the opportunity for at least two and as many as three or four distinct opportunities in the stages in the play of a hand to be able to make one or more play wagers.

主权项

1. A method of administering a wagering game over a network, comprising:
providing at least one server of a gaming system; providing, by the at least one server, a client for execution on a user device connected to the network and associated with a player, the player being remote from the at least one server; the client receiving from the user device, and communicating to the at least one server, an indication of an ante wager associated with the player to qualify the player to participate in the wagering game; the client receiving from the user device, and communicating to the at least one server, an indication of a bonus wager associated with the player; the gaming system adding the ante wager and the bonus wager to a game pot; the at least one server determining a set of player cards defining a partial player hand including a selected number of randomized playing cards from a set of playing cards; the at least one server communicating to the user device the partial player hand for display on a display associated with the user device; the at least one server determining a partial dealer hand including a selected number of randomized playing cards from the set of playing cards equal to the selected number of randomized playing cards forming the partial player hand; the at least one server receiving, from the client, a first game play election of a check, the first game play election input at the user device and selected by the player associated with the user device from first game play options comprising the check and a play wager election of a play wager amount not exceeding a first predetermined maximum multiple of the ante wager; the at least one server determining a set of community cards including randomized playing cards from the set of playing cards; the at least one server communicating to the user device the set of community cards for display on the display associated with the user device; after receiving the first game play election of the check, the at least one server receiving, from the client, a second game play election input at the user device and selected by the player associated with the user device from second game play options comprising a fold and a play wager election of a play wager amount not exceeding a second predetermined maximum multiple of the ante wager; the gaming system adding the play wager amount to the game pot; the at least one server determining a poker hand for the player associated with the user device, the poker hand for the player formed from the partial player hand and the set of community cards; the at least one server determining a poker hand for the dealer formed from the partial dealer hand and the set of community cards; the at least one server resolving the ante wager and any play wager associated with the user device based at least in part on a comparison of the poker hand for the player to the poker hand for the dealer and determining a payout to be distributed from the game pot to the player for the poker hand for the player outranking the poker hand for the dealer; and the at least one server resolving the bonus wager associated with the player.