Abstract: A digital system for managing and tracking knockout poker or progressive knock poker tournament in a live gaming setting. Each tournament entrant has a player device at the table seat. The dealer manages table activity, including bounty and bank roll activity, through a dealer device. A tournament director uses a director device to manage the dealer devices and the player devices. The director devices and dealer devices have higher levels of administrative access as compared to the player devices. The player devices are designed to be visible by all players seated at the gaming table so that each player can be appraised of every other player's current bounty and bank roll status. The dealer can use the dealer device to manage and track the knockout and other aspects of the game by inputting and modifying bounty, bankroll, and other information in response to events occurring the real-time poker game.

Abstract: A digital system for managing and tracking knockout poker or progressive knock poker tournament in a live gaming setting. Each tournament entrant has a player device at the table seat. The dealer manages table activity, including bounty and bank roll activity, through a dealer device. A tournament director uses a director device to manage the dealer devices and the player devices. The director devices and dealer devices have higher levels of administrative access as compared to the player devices. The player devices are designed to be visible by all players seated at the gaming table so that each player can be appraised of every other player's current bounty and bank roll status. The dealer can use the dealer device to manage and track the knockout and other aspects of the game by inputting and modifying bounty, bankroll, and other information in response to events occurring the real-time poker game.

Abstract: An earth boring apparatus may include an earth-boring cutter head, and a casing secured to the cutter head and extending rearwardly therefrom so that the casing and cutter head are rotatable together as a unit. A casing cuttings passage may extend from adjacent the casing front end to adjacent the casing back end. An entrance opening of the casing cuttings passage, which is adjacent the cutter head, is adapted to allow cuttings to move through the entrance opening into the casing cuttings passage. In some implementations there may be a stationary auger positioned within the casing cuttings passage rearwardly from the entrance opening, such that the stationary auger does not rotate when the casing and cutter head are rotated together as a unit.

Abstract: An earth boring apparatus may include an earth-boring cutter head, and a casing secured to the cutter head and extending rearwardly therefrom so that the casing and cutter head are rotatable together as a unit. A casing cuttings passage may extend from adjacent the casing front end to adjacent the casing back end. An entrance opening of the casing cuttings passage, which is adjacent the cutter head, is adapted to allow cuttings to move through the entrance opening into the casing cuttings passage. In some implementations there may be a stationary auger positioned within the casing cuttings passage rearwardly from the entrance opening, such that the stationary auger does not rotate when the casing and cutter head are rotated together as a unit.

Abstract: A rock head for use with an auger borer to bore a passageway through a body of soil and rock and simultaneously laying a pipe in that bored passageway. The rock head has a base connectable to the leading end of the auger. A plurality of movable mounts are provided on the base and a roller cone is secured to each movable mount. A spring is disposed between the movable mount and the base. The spring is compressed as the movable mount pivots the roller cones inwardly toward a central region of the base. This reduces the diameter of the rock head so that it can travel through the bore. Each movable mount is provided with at least one wheel so that it can ride smoothly through the bore. When the rock head exits the pipe, the springs automatically pivots each roller cone outwardly so that at least a portion thereof is disposed beyond the outermost edge of the base. In this second position, the rock head has a greater diameter than the pipe bore and therefore it cannot travel therethrough.