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Server based gaming system and method for selectively providing one or more different tournaments

Greg Schlottmann, +6 more
TLDR
A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to multiple gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and tournament game play on the same gaming machines as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: 
A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines.

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Game related systems, methods, and articles that combine virtual and physical elements

Bryan M. Kelly, +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, physical objects such as playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles and media (e.g., identity media, financial media) are employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based games.
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Gaming system and method providing variable payback percentages

Cara L. Iddings, +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a player tracking status of a player is associated with a player ranking assigned to each player by a suitable player tracking system, which is used to select one of the paytables or award sequences for the game.
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Tournament gaming systems

Bryan M. Kelly, +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a plurality of tournament displays are positioned throughout a gaming establishment and the tournament server sends tournament information to the tournament displays near the location of active and eligible players of the tournament game.
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Gaming system, gaming device and method providing competitive wagering games

Dwayne A. Davis, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a turn-based video game is used to determine whether a player or an opponent wins a competition game in a wagering game with a virtual opponent or a human opponent.
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Wagering game with tournament-play features

Allon G. Englman, +3 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is presented for offering a wagering game tournament to a plurality of players on a majority of gaming machines, which are located on a gaming network.
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Prize redemption system for games

Matthew F. Kelly, +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a prize redemption system for use with one or more game apparatuses is described. But this system is limited to a single game and the player can only select a prize having a prize cost within the player's prize credit amount.
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Method and apparatus for operating networked gaming devices

John F. Acres, +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a system for monitoring and configuring gaming devices interconnected over a high speed network is described, which can support a file server, one or more floor controllers, and other terminals all interconnected over the network.
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Method of playing game and gaming games with an additional payout indicator

William R. Adams
TL;DR: In this paper, a rotatable wheel is used as a payment multiplier to display a plurality of values by which a payout may be multiplied, and a preferred embodiment comprises a payout multiplier which displays a multiplicative multiplicative multiplier.
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Method for operating networked gaming devices

John F. Acres, +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a system for monitoring and configuring gaming devices interconnected over a high speed network is described, which can support a file server, one or more floor controllers, and other terminals all interconnected over the network.
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Database driven online distributed tournament system

Jay S. Walker, +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a distributed electronic tournament system is described in which many remotely located players participate in a tournament through input/output devices connected to a central controller which manages the tournament.