US 11,776,359 B2
Gaming devices and methods for enhancing future gaming events
Bradley Berman, Minnetonka, MN (US)
Filed by KING SHOW GAMES, INC., Minnetonka, MN (US)
Filed on Nov. 14, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/683,812.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/767,132, filed on Nov. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0152014 A1, May 14, 2020
Int. Cl. A63F 13/00 (2014.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3267 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3293 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gaming apparatus for facilitating player participation in electronic poker games, the gaming apparatus comprising:
a video display operable to display a game play grid having a plurality of card positions;
digital storage configured to store a plurality of virtual cards;
a user interface configured to receive at least player input to facilitate player participation in the poker game;
a wager input device structured to identify and validate player assets, and to permit the player to participate in the electronic poker games in which the player assets are provided;
a processor configured to:
randomly select cards from the plurality of virtual cards to present in at least some of the plurality of card positions to form a first poker hand via the video display;
randomly designate a card position among the plurality of card positions on the video display having one of the randomly selected cards in the first poker hand, wherein the randomly designated card position is visually identified on the video display;
store, via the digital storage, the location of the randomly designated card position;
facilitate the player's completion of participation of the first poker hand;
facilitate the player's participation in a number (N) of intermediate poker hands;
identify a benefit-receiving poker hand to be N+1 poker hands after the first poker hand in which the card position was randomly designated;
provide an enhanced card at the stored location of the randomly designated card position in the benefit-receiving poker hand; and
facilitate player's participation to completion of the benefit-receiving poker hand using the enhanced card.