Abstract:
A gaming device includes an award distributor having a plurality of sections having first and second coordinates, a symbol group and a plurality of modifier groups including the sections, a plurality of awards associated with the sections in the symbol group and a plurality of award percentages associated with the sections in the modifier groups, an illumination device associated with the sections, a section indicator associated with the award distributor and a processor in communication with the award distributor. The gaming device determines the first coordinate of one of the modifier groups and then spins the award wheel to determine the second coordinate of one of the sections in the indicated modifier group, which indicates the section. The section indicator also indicates a section including an award in the symbol group. The indicated award is multiplied by the indicated award percentage to provide an activation award to the player.
Abstract:
Interactive gaming tables and systems adapted to facilitate the automated administration of gaming table events are provided. Tables can have a playing surface, an outer circumference with active player positions, a slave controller for each active player position adapted to facilitate automated gaming activities, a master gaming table controller to synchronize communications and activities between slave controllers, access interfaces for communications with networked devices located away from the table, cameras and other tracking devices adapted to track gaming events at the table, and a specialized gaming table bolster distributed about the outer circumference. Bolster devices can include player friendly peripherals, including visual displays, speakers, open jacks, player tracking devices, and lights or other display elements to indicate table game statuses or the presence or absence of players. Tables can communicate with each other, a remote host, and/or player controlled auxiliary or hand-held wireless devices, which may be adapted for backbetting.
Abstract:
Systems and methods using multiple gaming tables, tracking devices and a bonus server adapted to provide progressive bonuses are provided. The bonus server provides eligibility to a singular progressive table game bonus simultaneously to multiple table game players at multiple gaming tables of multiple gaming table types. Funding and player eligibility for the progressive table game bonus are based on main wagers made on main table games, with separate bonus side wagers or funding not being needed. The bonus server or system can determine all patrons eligible for the bonus, track wagering information, award an appropriate number of entries to the bonus for each eligible player, and determine a bonus outcome based on the number of entries. The number of entries awarded to a given player can be weighted based on the size of a wager and its associated expectation value to the gaming operator.
Abstract:
A gaming method includes receiving a wager from a first player, displaying an image representative of a game, determining an outcome for the game represented by the image, and associating a first payout with the first player according to the outcome. The method also includes receiving an exchange of communications between the first player and a second player regarding an exchange of the first payout and a second payout, associating the second payout with the first player, and associating the first payout with the second player.
Abstract:
A method for preparing phenyl-containing organosilicon intermediates using an aromatic halogenated solvent during the coupling reaction involving a phenyl Grignard reagent and a precursor silane. The process comprises contacting a phenyl halide with magnesium in a solvent such as ether, or an aromatic halogenated/ether solvent mixture to form a Grignard reagent, and contacting the Grignard reagent with a precursor chlorosilane in aromatic halogenated solvent to form the desired organosilicon intermediates, and then filtering and distilling to acquire the organosilicon intermediate reaction product.
Abstract:
A disclosed gaming machine is used to provide a method of registering a player to a loyalty program such as a player tracking program at the gaming machine. At the gaming machine, the player or a casino service representative may enter identification information such as a name, an address and biometric information using an input mechanism located on the gaming machine or on a hand-held wireless device. The loyalty program information may be combined with information such as serial number or a bar-code read from a loyalty program instrument in a loyalty program registration request message sent to a loyalty program server such as a player tracking server. The loyalty program instrument may include a magnetic striped card, a smart card, a printed ticket, a room key, a cell-phone or a portable computing device. When the registration request is confirmed by the loyalty program server, the player may begin a loyalty program session on a gaming machine and earn loyalty points.
Abstract:
A Grignard-type process for the preparation of unsaturated organic compounds. The process comprises contacting an unsaturated organic halide with magnesium metal in a mixture of ether and a polar halogenated hydrocarbon co-solvent, filtering the reaction product from the reaction step and thereafter, treating the reaction product filtrate from the filtration step to obtain the desired unsaturated organic compounds.
Abstract:
A process for reacting organodisilanes with organic halides to form monosilanes. The process comprises heating a mixture comprising an organodisilane and an organic halide at a temperature within a range of about 100.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. The process is especially useful for reacting alkenyl chlorides, such as allyl chloride, with organodisilanes to form organomonosilanes having alkenyl substitution. The process is also useful for converting a high-boiling organodisilane containing fraction from a direct process for forming organosilanes into more useful monosilanes.
Abstract:
The present invention is a process for preparing alkoxysilanes by the contact of silicon with a solution of hydrogen fluoride in a liquid primary or secondary alcohol. The hydrogen fluoride activates the silicon causing the formation of alkoxysilanes to occur more rapidly and can provide selectivity for the production of dialkoxysilanes and trialkoxysilanes. The process may be run in the presence of copper or a copper compound as a catalyst. The process is advantageously run using atomized silicon.