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WO2007059310A3
WO2007059310A3 PCT/US2006/044668 US2006044668W WO2007059310A3 WO 2007059310 A3 WO2007059310 A3 WO 2007059310A3 US 2006044668 W US2006044668 W US 2006044668W WO 2007059310 A3 WO2007059310 A3 WO 2007059310A3
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seats
teams
players
seat
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Carl Gustafsson
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Carl Gustafsson
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Publication of WO2007059310A3 publication Critical patent/WO2007059310A3/en

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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F1/06—Card games appurtenances
    • A63F1/18—Score computers; Miscellaneous indicators
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/326—Game play aspects of gaming systems
    • G07F17/3272—Games involving multiple players
    • G07F17/3276—Games involving multiple players wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/3286—Type of games
    • G07F17/3293—Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F1/00—Card games
    • A63F2001/005—Poker

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  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Management, Administration, Business Operations System, And Electronic Commerce (AREA)
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Abstract

A method for teams having one or more players each to play poker tournaments (101) The teams start with the same number of chips and, when the tournament starts, each team is allocated a certain number of seats (103) The chip stacks respectively allotted to a team's allocated seats belong to the seats, not the players (107) Players can be moved between seats, but players from the same team are not allowed to sit at the same table (215) When a player loses such that his or her chip count is zero (301), the team loses that seat (303), but the losing player can be moved to another seat at another table, if desired When a team has lost all of their seats, that team is out (307), (309) The size of the tables during the tournament may vary The ranking of the teams is based on their respective total number of chips, active seats or combination of chip and active seat totals
PCT/US2006/044668 2005-11-16 2006-11-16 Method for teams to play poker tournaments WO2007059310A2 (en)

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US12/084,890 US20090121438A1 (en) 2005-11-16 2006-11-16 Method for Teams to Play Poker Tournaments

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US73684105P 2005-11-16 2005-11-16
US60/736,841 2005-11-16

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WO2007059310A3 true WO2007059310A3 (en) 2007-11-29

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US5603502A (en) * 1995-11-20 1997-02-18 Nakagawa; George Poker tournament method
US20030070178A1 (en) * 2001-09-09 2003-04-10 Boyd Robert A. Poker tournament system
US20050102047A1 (en) * 2003-11-10 2005-05-12 Glyn Ottofy System and method for playing a team gaming tournament

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