Multi-Play Poker System with Central Determination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems struggle to provide a predetermined game outcome in multi-play poker games, especially when players are simultaneously playing multiple hands, due to the complexity of distributing payouts across multiple hands while ensuring consistency with the predetermined outcome, leading to inconsistencies and impracticality for gaming devices to determine appropriate distributions quickly and accurately.
Innovation Solution
A central determination multi-play poker game system generates databases to determine possible poker hands and payout distributions, using auto-hold strategies and deterministic random number generating algorithms to select initial hands and ensure that each played hand contributes to a total payout matching the predetermined outcome, allowing for player interaction while maintaining a predetermined game result.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a predetermined game outcome is implemented in multi-play poker games, then the payout distribution becomes consistent and reliable, but the complexity of determining compatible distributions across multiple hands increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines game outcomes and associated payout distributions before the player actually plays. The central determination system generates the predetermined outcome and works backward to determine compatible distributions of poker hands and payouts, eliminating the complexity of real-time determination during actual gameplay.
Solution Approach 2:
A central determination system acts as an intermediary between the player's multi-play poker game and the payout distribution logic. This central system handles the complex task of determining compatible distributions across multiple hands, freeing individual gaming devices from this computational burden and ensuring consistency across the network.
2Ease of operation
If multiple poker hands are played simultaneously with a predetermined outcome, then player interaction is enhanced, but the speed and accuracy of determining compatible payout distributions decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-determines outcomes and compatible payout distributions before the player engages in actual gameplay. This allows the complex distribution determination to be performed in advance when computational resources are available, rather than requiring rapid real-time calculations during player interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The determination process is segmented into distinct phases: outcome determination, distribution calculation, and gameplay execution. The central determination system handles the complex segmentation and distribution calculation separately from the actual player interaction, improving both player experience and determination speed.
Data Source
AI summary
A gaming system which provides the player a plurality of playing cards to form an initial primary card hand and also displays one or more other card hands. The player selects one or more of the initially dealt cards in the primary card hand to hold or to discard. The held cards are also held in one, more or each of the other simultaneously displayed hands. The gaming device evaluates the held cards and determines which card game outcomes are possible based on the held cards and the remaining cards in the deck. The gaming device utilizes a stored table of different distributions of card game outcomes which would result in each payout amount and a table regarding which card game outcomes are possible based on the player's held cards to determine a distribution of outcomes that provides a total payout equal to the payout of the predetermined game outcome.