Peter Ortiz

US Patent:

6299171, Oct 9, 2001

Filed:

Sep 20, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/399101

Inventors:

Paul Thomas Mollo - Brigantine NJ
Peter Joseph Ortiz - Atlantic City NJ

Assignee:

Peter & Paul, Inc. - Brigantine NJ

International Classification:

A63F 100

US Classification:

273292

Abstract:

A method of playing an improved baccarat-type card game wherein unlike conventional baccarat, in the card game each player is dealt his or her own hand of cards, and each player wagers on either a banker's hand to win, or on the player's own hand to win, or on a tie between the player's own hand and the banker's hand. The card game includes the standard baccarat rules of assigning a predetermined value to each card within a standard deck of cards, with an ace through "9" of each suit having values of one through nine respectively and all "10"s and face cards of each suit having a value of zero, and truncating the tens digit to obtain a zero through nine value sum for the player's scores and the banker's score. Unlike conventional baccarat, in the card game a score of ten os awarded to the player's hand or the banker's hand if either contains a combination of any three face cards. Awarding a winning status to an individual player when the player's score exceeds the banker's score, awarding the winning status to the banker's score when the banker's score exceeds the player's score, and awarding a tie if the player's score equals the banker's score.

US Patent:

60479655, Apr 11, 2000

Filed:

Oct 21, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/176152

Inventors:

Paul Thomas Mollo - Brigantine NJ
Peter Joseph Ortiz - Atlantic City NJ

International Classification:

A63F 504

US Classification:

273142E

Abstract:

In a roulette wheel assembly, canoes, which equiangularly spaced around a circle intermediate a wheel and an upper track where travel of a roulette ball begins, are modified. Air outlets are provided in each canoe. Air from a source is controlled to provide randomized outputs of air from each canoe in order to affect the travel of a ball in a vicinity of a canoe in order to increase randomization of travel of the ball.

US Patent:

D3986608, Sep 22, 1998

Filed:

Oct 23, 1996

Appl. No.:

D/061416

Inventors:

Paul Thomas Mollo - Brigantine NJ
Peter Joseph Ortiz - Atlantic City NJ

International Classification:

2102

US Classification:

D21 37