Merrill T Sparago

8313366, Nov 20, 2012

Mar 29, 2012

13/433466

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

Score Gaming LLC - Los Angeles CA

A63F 1/00

463 13, 273292, 273274

A card game played on an electronic gaming machine between a game machine/dealer and one or more players. Each player is dealt one card. Three community cards (Flop cards) are dealt and, in succession, compared to each player's card according to the rules of War. A fourth community card (Turn card) is revealed, along with a single dealer card. The player's final hand must outrank the dealer's final hand and achieve at least a preset Poker ranking in order to win a mandatory wager. A second Raise portion of the player's wager is won if the player's card combined with the four community cards form a predetermined poker hand ranking. In a variation of the game method, one Bet the Hole wager is resolved according to the rules of War.

8286967, Oct 16, 2012

Apr 29, 2011

13/097225

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

Score Gaming LLC - Los Angeles CA

A63F 1/001

273292

A card game of Blackjack including a novel side wager. If a Player has made the side wager, two dice are rolled. If the sum of the two rolled dice is 2, 3 or 12, the side bet is automatically lost similar to the Come-Out roll in the game of craps. If the dice sum is 7 or 11, the side bet is automatically won. If the dice sum is anything other, a Point is established. As in traditional Blackjack, each Player is dealt two cards face up, and the Dealer is dealt two cards—one face up. A Player wins the side bet if one of their dealt cards has a face value equal to the Point, or if the sum of their dealt cards equals the Point. Several variations on the basic game method are described. According to one variation, the side wager is resolved uniformly for all Players that have made the optional side wager based on the Dealer's initial up card or on the Dealer's first two cards when both are revealed. The invention may be implemented as a live table game in conjunction with the card game Blackjack, or in electronic implementations were the cards, playing surface, and dice are simulated on a display screen through the action of a non-transitory computer readable medium coded with instructions and executed by a processor.

8413989, Apr 9, 2013

Nov 16, 2011

13/297745

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

Score Gaming LLC - Los Angeles CA

A63F 1/00

273292, 463 12

The invention relates to a modified blackjack game between a dealer and at least one player. After placing initial wagers, three cards are dealt to each player and two cards dealt to the dealer. The game design allows players to either retain their initial three cards for play as a game hand, or divide their cards into separate game hands. Dividing cards into separate hands requires additional wagers. Players may play their one or more game hands by standing or hitting to reach a hand that is higher than the dealers without exceeding twenty-one. Players may divide their initial three card hand in any fashion that will provide them with the best opportunity to obtain a game hand under the conventional rules of blackjack.

20090051110, Feb 26, 2009

Aug 22, 2007

11/843623

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

A63F 1/00

273236

A modified game of blackjack includes a side wager made available if the dealer's two-card hand equals ten or eleven. The side wager is betting on the third dealer's card being an “any ten” card: ten, jack, queen or king. The side wager is resolved independently of the main game. The timing of the side wager makes it attractive to players while the odds favor the house. The side wager is preferably paid at 2:1. Modifications of the side wager that pay at higher ratios are also disclosed.

20100123288, May 20, 2010

Oct 22, 2009

12/603713

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

A63F 1/00

273292

A card game played between a dealer and one or more players. Each player is dealt one card at the start of play. Three community cards (Flop cards) are dealt and, in succession, compared to each player's card according to the rules of War. Wagers can be placed and resolved against each of these rounds. A fourth community card (Turn card) is dealt or revealed, along with a single dealer card. The player's final hand, which comprises their one card taken together with all four community cards, must outrank the dealer's final hand and achieve at least a preset Poker ranking in order to win a mandatory wager. A second Raise portion of the player's wager is won if the player's card combined with the four community cards form a predetermined poker hand ranking. In a variation of the game method, one Bet the Hole wager is resolved according to the rules of War by comparing the player's card against the dealer's Hole card, a second Raise portion of the player's wager is won if the player's card combined with the four community cards form a predetermined poker hand ranking, and a third Pair Please portion of the player's wager is won if the four community cards form at least a pair.

20110198809, Aug 18, 2011

Feb 8, 2011

13/023123

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

Score Gaming LLC - Los Angeles CA

A63F 1/00

273292

A modified version of the casino table/video game Pai Gow Poker, may be played with five to seven cards dealt to each player/dealer. Optional secondary and tertiary side wagers are proved which allow the player to use their cards to establish various pre-defined card combinations and/or values which, if achieved, result in a pay-out according to a pre-defined proportional factor of the amount wagered. In the secondary side wager, the High and/or Low hands are viewed as a Blackjack hand which is resolved against a pay table representing a plurality of outcomes. Various tertiary bonus schemes may include, for examples, a bonus based on all cards considered against a poker table, a bonus paid on consideration of one, two, three, four or five cards, consideration of the High and Low hands separately or collectively based on a Low Sum pay table, etc. The subject modified Pai Gow card is preferably played with one or two Jokers to increase the likelihood of players making a hand and therefore increase the excitement of the game.

20110300918, Dec 8, 2011

Aug 16, 2010

12/857532

Merrill SPARAGO - Los Angeles CA, US

G06F 17/00
A63F 1/00

463 13, 273303

The invention relates to a modified blackjack game between a dealer and at least one player. After placing initial wagers, three cards are dealt to each player and two cards dealt to the dealer. The game design allows players to either retain their initial three cards for play, or divide their cards into separate hands. Dividing cards into separate hands requires additional wagers. Players may use their initial three cards by standing or hitting to reach a hand that is higher than the dealers without exceeding twenty one, players may divide their three cards in any fashion that will provide them with the best opportunity to obtain a hand under the conventional rules of blackjack, players will have the choice to play to thirty, thirty-one, or thirty two, and players will have the option of surrendering their initial wager.

20120139181, Jun 7, 2012

Nov 29, 2011

13/306270

Merrill Sparago - Los Angeles CA, US

SCORE GAMING LLC - Los Angeles CA

A63F 9/04

273274

A method of playing craps includes a come out roll establishing a point followed by resolution of the point by subsequent rolls attempting to roll the established point prior to rolling a seven. The method includes the steps of: (a) placing a side wager selected from the group consisting of an odd, even, hard, or combination thereof; (b) rolling the come out roll; (c) rolling additional rolls until the outcome results in a point being established; (d) rolling additional rolls until the established point is made resolving the point as a win in favor of wagers placed on a pass line or a seven is rolled resolving the point as a loss to those wagers; and (e) paying out the side wagers if the point is resolved in favor of the player or collecting the wagers if the point is resolved in a loss.