Method and apparatus for increasing potential payout opportunities in card games

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9786131
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15231778

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Systems, apparatuses and methods for increasing potential payout opportunities using multiple card indicia representing multiple cards. One embodiment involves determining whether any one or more of a plurality of cards of a poker game having multiple poker hands are to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia representing multiple cards, presenting the plurality of cards of the poker hands, including the one or more of the plurality of cards determined to be randomly provided with multiple card indicia, and identifying a plurality of resulting hands for each of the multiple poker hands that include a multiple card indicia, where each of the plurality of resulting hands includes a different subset of a total of the indicia of the other cards in the respective poker hand and any cards provided with multiple card indicia.

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KING SHOW GAMES INC10275 WAYZATA BLVD SUITE 300 MINNETONKA MN 55305

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Berman, Bradley Minnetonka, US 237 4404
Lamb, Jacob Maple Grove, US 77 622
Shapiro, Chad Plymouth, US 66 579

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