Patent ID: 8720890
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of conducting a wagering game comprising: accepting a player wager; providing means for a player to activate a series of game reels, said game reels depicting game indicia; identifying a series of primary game awards winnable in response to a group of pre-established winning alignments of the game indicia; paying a primary game award for certain of the pre-established winning alignments of the game indicia and triggering a bonus game option in response to other certain of the pre-established winning alignments of the game indicia wherein triggering of said bonus game option is triggered prior to paying an associated primary game award to said player; and in response to the triggering of the bonus game option, offering a player an opportunity to either play the bonus game whereby the associated primary game award is not paid to the player but used as a wager on an outcome of the bonus game such that the primary game award is increased or decreased depending on an outcome of the bonus game, or not play the bonus game thereby causing the associated primary game award to be paid to the player.