House-Banked Poker Side Bet System with Community Card Payouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing poker game wagering methods lack a structured and organized way to incorporate side bets that can provide significant payouts based on community card outcomes, leading to limited revenue streams for casinos.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for a house-banked side game in poker that allows players to place side bets on community card combinations, with payouts triggered by preset card combinations, and the option to assign a portion of side bets to a progressive jackpot, enabling continued participation even if the base game is resolved before community cards are dealt.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a side bet game is introduced alongside the base poker game, then additional revenue streams are created for the casino, but the game structure and rules become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the poker gaming experience into two independent segments: the base game (player-banked poker) and the side bet game (house-banked chance game). The side game uses separate wagering, separate payout structures, and independent triggering conditions based on community cards. This segmentation allows the casino to introduce a revenue-generating side bet without fundamentally altering or complicating the core poker game mechanics that players already understand.
Solution Approach 2:
The community cards served as an intermediary element that connects the base game and side game without requiring direct interaction between them. The side bet triggers based on predetermined combinations of community cards (e.g., flush, straight, three-of-a-kind), allowing the house-banked side game to operate independently while still being visually connected to the base game progression. This intermediary mechanism simplifies the overall structure by using existing game elements rather than creating entirely separate systems.
2Manufacturing precision
If the side game uses preset card combinations for payouts, then the payout structure becomes more organized and predictable, but the game requires additional comparison and evaluation steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes predetermined payout triggers and preset card combinations before the game begins. Specific community card combinations (such as flushes, straights, three-of-a-kind) are pre-assigned with specific payout multiples. This preliminary structuring allows dealers to quickly determine payouts by simple pattern recognition rather than complex calculation, organizing the payout structure while minimizing the actual comparison effort needed during gameplay.
Solution Approach 2:
The side game uses discrete parameter changes in the form of predetermined payout multiples associated with specific card combinations. Rather than continuous or calculated payouts, the system uses fixed parameters (e.g., 5x payout for flush, 10x for straight) that simplify the evaluation process. This parameter-based approach organizes the payout structure into clear, manageable categories that are easy to implement and enforce.
3Productivity
If the base game is resolved before community cards are dealt, then players can continue playing the base game, but the side bet wagers must be handled differently
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the side bet wager handling from the main game flow by creating a separate resolution path. When the base game resolves before the flop (three community cards), the side bet wagers are removed from active play and placed in a holding pot. This extraction allows the base game to proceed efficiently without side bet complications, while the side bets are separately managed and either carried forward to the next hand or resolved based on predetermined rules, simplifying the overall operational process.
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AI summary
A method of providing a house-banked side game that includes receiving a side bet in the side game associated with the base game from one or more players in the base game, the side bet corresponding to a side game having a payout triggering event associated with a group of community playing cards being the same as at least one preset combination of playing cards, dealing at least two of the playing cards to at least two of users participating in the base game, dealing at least three community playing cards to the group of community playing cards shared by a at least two users participating in the base game, comparing the first three community playing cards with the preset combination, awarding a payout to the players from which a side bet is received responsive to the payout triggering event, and maintaining the side bets thereafter.