Patent ID: 8181962

Claim:
A method for playing a wagering game comprising: providing an electronic computer having a computer readable medium encoded with instructions, and having an electronic processor, executing the instructions on the electronic processor to perform the following operations: receiving an ante wager from a player; determining a bonus suit randomly and displaying the bonus suit, the bonus suit being chosen out of a set of suits comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; dealing a hand of cards to the player; determining a point total of the hand, the point total being determined by adding card values in the hand of each suit to determine each suit's point total and the point total is a highest point total out of each suit's point total; and paying the player a payout based on the point total, wherein if a point total of card values in the hand for cards with the bonus suit is the point total and equals a particular point total, then the payout is higher than if the point total does not use the bonus suit.