Patent ID: 9202342
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a poker game on an electronic gaming machine (“EGM”) including a processor for controlling the EGM, a display device, an accepting device configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value, the monetary value establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity, a cashout device configured to receive an input to cause an initiation of a payout associated with the credit balance, a non-transitory memory device having computer-executable instructions and a random number generator (“RNG”) program for supplying random numbers to the processor stored thereon, the method comprising: receiving, by the processor, a wager amount placed for play of the poker game, the wager amount decreasing the credit balance; generating, via the RNG program, a first set of one or more random numbers that are used by the processor to provide a first random set of at least three cards to be displayed on the display device and representing a first dealt poker hand from a first deck of cards, wherein the first dealt poker hand is presented along a first axis; generating, via the RNG program, a second set of one or more random numbers that are used by the processor to provide a second random set of at least three cards to be displayed on the display device and representing a second dealt poker hand from a second deck, wherein the second dealt poker hand is presented along a second axis intersecting the first axis, and wherein the second dealt poker hand shares at least one common card with the first dealt poker hand at a first intersection of the first and second dealt hands across the first and second axes; providing, by the processor, an opportunity to a player to change the common card shared between the first dealt poker hand and the second dealt poker hand displayed on the display device, wherein the opportunity comprises the player, via an input device coupled to the EGM, sliding the first dealt poker hand in a direction parallel across either one of the first or second axis, thereby confirming a selection of the common card upon reaching a desired common card to be held in both the first dealt poker hand and the second dealt poker hand, the desired common card being a second intersection of the first and second dealt poker hands across the first and second axes; allowing, by the processor, the player to select which cards from the first dealt poker hand and the second dealt poker hand to hold or discard; discarding, by the processor, zero or more discard cards selected by the player from the first dealt poker hand and the second dealt poker hand; removing, by the processor, the discarded cards from the first dealt poker hand and the second dealt poker hand; generating, via the RNG, a third set of one or more random numbers that are used by the processor to provide one or more draw cards from the first deck to replace any of the discarded cards of the first dealt poker hand to create a first completed poker hand, and presenting the first completed poker hand on the display device; generating, via the RNG, a fourth set of one or more random numbers that are used by the processor to provide one or more draw cards from the second deck to replace any of the discarded cards of the second dealt poker hand to create a second completed poker hand, and presenting the second completed poker hand on the display device, wherein the first and second completed poker hands share the desired common card at said second intersection; determining, by the processor, whether the first completed poker hand includes a first winning combination; and determining, by the processor, whether the second completed poker hand includes a second winning combination; increasing, by the processor, the credit balance by any award associated with the first and second winning combinations; and detecting, by the processor, the input to cause the initiation of the payout, via the cashout device.