Patent ID: 9550109
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A63F,G07F

Claim:
1. A method of playing video poker with a computer, a random number generator, and a video display device, said method comprising the steps of: a. dealing, with the computer and random number generator, one card to form a preliminary secondary string poker hand of one card and displaying said card on the video display device; b. dealing, with the computer and random number generator, a primary poker hand of five cards and displaying said card on the video display device, selecting zero to five cards from the displayed primary poker hand and discarding any selected card; c. dealing, with the computer and random number generator, zero to five cards to the displayed primary poker hand to replace any discarded card to form a final primary poker hand of five cards; d. determining, with a computer, a payout based on a pre-determined pay scale for the final displayed primary poker hand when it is a winning poker hand; e. selecting one card from a the winning primary poker hand and placing a copy of the card in the secondary string hand to form a preliminary secondary string hand; f. determining a pay out, with the computer, based on a pre-determined pay scale for the cards in the secondary string poker hand when the cards are a winning poker hand; g. dealing another primary poker hand, with the computer and random number generator, and repeating the above method steps b, c, d, e, and f until the secondary string hand reaches five cards or a primary hand is not a winning hand.