Patent ID: 7222857

Claim:
A video poker machine comprising: at least one display device; at least one input device; at least one computer configured with the display device and the input device to: a) deal a first hand of at least five cards all face up to a player; b) cause a selection of none, one or more of the face up cards from the first hand as cards to be held; c) automatically duplicate the cards selected to be held from the first hand dealt into a second hand dealt to the same player, said first hand and said second hand being displayed to the same player by the same display device; d) discard from the first hand the face up cards not selected to be held and replace each of said cards with a face up card; e) complete the second hand to have at least five cards by dealing additional face up cards; and f) determine the poker hand ranking of the resulting cards of the first hand and the second hand.