Patent ID: 9401071
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: A63F,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A video poker machine comprising: a housing; a plurality of input devices supported by the housing, the plurality of input devices including an acceptor; at least one display device supported by the housing; at least one processor; and at least one memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the plurality of input devices to: (a) establish a credit balance based at least in part on a monetary value associated with a physical item after the physical item is received by the acceptor; (b) place a wager on a play of a card game after an actuation of a wager button is received, the credit balance being decreasable by the wager, the card game associated with a plurality of paylines; (c) activate one or more of the paylines based on the wager; (d) for a first active payline, randomly determine and display face-up a first hand including a plurality of cards; (e) if the first hand satisfies a multiplier condition, for each active payline, randomly determine a multiplier from a set of a plurality of different multipliers and associate said randomly-determined multiplier with said active payline; (f) enable selection of none, one, a plurality, or all of the cards of the first hand to be held; (g) for each of any additional active paylines, display one or more additional hands each including each of any held cards of the first hand; (h) if all of the cards of the first hand are held, designate each hand as complete; (i) if fewer than all of the cards of the first hand are held: (j) for each active payline, determine any awards for the complete hand associated with said active payline based at least in part on any multiplier associated with said active payline, the credit balance being increasable by any determined awards; and (k) initiate a payout associated with the credit balance after an actuation of a cashout button is received.