Patent ID: 8585056

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: (a) a plurality of remote input terminals; (b) at least one display; (c) a central location executing a game program, including receiving wagers and selections from said input terminals and generating an image on said at least one display; (d) said game program including instructions for carrying out a method for using a plurality of poker decks of playing cards for a game that requires a pool size P larger than the number of playing cards N in said deck, each of said decks consisting of thirteen different playing cards in each of four suits with zero or more Jokers, said method comprising the steps of: (1) combining a number D of said decks such that the total of said playing cards T=D×N is greater than said pool size P and said combined deck has D of each unique playing card; and (2) removing a number of playing cards R from said combined deck so that the number of playing cards in said combined deck is the same as said pool size P, R=T−P.