A sponsored system and method for a user of gaming portals to place wagers to voluntarily establish with the assistance of the system sponsor an appropriate gambling budget for the user and to voluntarily limit the available aggregate of debt to a personalized credit limit so that the user's predetermined gambling budget is not exceeded. The compulsive gambler and/or electronic gaming player is protected by the system's identification of gambling risk patterns and/or electronic gaming habits. The system provides a “risk backstop” to prevent the accrual of debt from betting or electronic game playing that is beyond the individual user's financial capacity.

A gaming system is disclosed that includes a server connected to automatically control operation of one or more banks of gaming machines. Additionally disclosed are gaming machines with video cameras connected to provide live video feed to one or more displays, such as during tournament play when live video feed of the players and the player tournament positions may be driven in real-time to an overhead display by the server operating in a tournament controller mode.

A system for providing a table-based card game service according to the present invention includes a controller that controls overall functions of the game comprising game start, preparation and end; a user information storage portion that stores user game information for each of a plurality of users registered to receive the card game service; and a game progressing portion that actually executes the card game in the game room generated in the controller and provides information related to game progressing to the controller.

A game management system that manages a casino game which is played in a casino facility includes: a camera that acquires an image by photographing bet game tokens; a control device that identifies a bet amount for each player position of a gaming table on the basis of a position, a type, and the number of game tokens in the image; a reader/writer device that identifies a player of each player position of the gaming table; and a point processing unit that stores a member ID of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device and a bet amount of each player position which is identified by the reader/writer device in a recording device in correlation with each other. The point processing unit has a function of giving points based on a bet amount of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device to the player.

Embodiments of the invention include a mystery degressive bonus system. Instead of a bonus that increases its value as the likelihood of winning the bonus increases, embodiments of the invention disconnect the likelihood of winning a mystery bonus from the amount awarded for triggering the mystery bonus. In some embodiments as the likelihood of winning the mystery bonus increases, the award for winning the mystery bonus decreases. Some embodiments include a minimum value for winning the mystery bonus. Additional embodiments are directed to an indicator system to show to the player a present amount of the mystery bonus award as well as the likelihood of winning the award. Further embodiments include a gaming device that includes a bonus game in which the amount awarded to the player decreases over time.

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related playing a progressive game, In some embodiments, at least one request may be received from a player to play a first game associated with a first prize pool. Play of the first game may be facilitated on at least one networked terminal based at least in part on receiving the at least one request from the, player to play the first game. Play of a second game associated with a second prize pool on the at least one networked terminal may be initiated, The second game may be initiated in response to the second prize pool reaching a predetermined amount.

In one aspect, gaming machines and systems are configured to distribute of viral events, such as viral gaming events, amongst devices. The devices can, for example, be gaming machines and/or mobile devices. According to one embodiment, once a viral event is triggered, it is presented at one or more first devices at a first time. The viral event spreads to other devices, such as one or more second devices where it can be presented at a later time. The viral event may continue to spread to numerous other devices. In another aspect, an apparatus, method, and system to acquire and display casino data on a portable electronic device may include a portable electronic device operative with a real-time location based data application to transmit the location of the portable electronic device and acquire, prioritize, store and display real-time casino data.

A gaming machine, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed, which permit a player to play a base game and a feature game that may be triggered or initiated through play of the base game. During play of the feature game, the gaming machine holds each instance of a feature trigger symbol in its respective feature game display position and, if a feature game has remaining spins, spins/respins reels to obtain replacement symbols for each feature game display position without the feature trigger symbol. If a newly-presented feature trigger symbol includes one or more directional components, the gaming machine propagates the new-presented feature trigger symbol in a direction or directions indicated by the one or more directional components.

A system for configuring a digital wallet application for implementing a casino player loyalty program includes a memory storing reward configuration data associated with digital wallet awards and a processor configured to: (a) provide an award type user interface for receiving player loyalty award types; (b) receive award type data corresponding to one or more selected player loyalty award types; (c) provide an award threshold user interface for receiving at least one indication corresponding to player loyalty award thresholds; (d) receive award threshold data corresponding to one or more selected player loyalty award thresholds; (e) provide an award trigger user interface for receiving player loyalty award triggers; (f) receive award trigger data corresponding to selected player loyalty award triggers; and (g) configure a rules engine for a mobile wallet based, at least in part, on the award type data, the award threshold data and the award trigger data.

A gaming system comprising a roulette wheel including a rotating wheel and a ball which generates a random number; one or more wager receiver to receive wagers placed by one or more players; a plurality of first winning event tokens; and a prize pool server, wherein the prize pool server includes a data receiver to receive details of the wagers placed by the players via the or each wager receiver, a processor for determining a prize pool and a data storage module for storing data relating to the prize pool; wherein if the random number generated by the roulette wheel does not satisfy a predetermined condition a losing event is defined and the monetary value of the wagers placed by the player(s) are added to the prize pool; and if the random number satisfies the pre-determined condition then a winning event is defined and the or each winning player receives one of the first winning event tokens which is used to select a number from an array of numbers that correspond to the numbers of the rotating wheel for a subsequent spin of the roulette wheel, wherein if the random number generated by the roulette wheel on its subsequent spin matches the selected number, a second winning event is defined and the player then wins a portion of the prize pool.