Patent ID: 7787972

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming tournament, said method comprising: (a) enabling a plurality of players to play a tournament on a plurality of gaming machines, said tournament having a plurality of tournament game outcomes including a designated tournament game outcome, said tournament game outcomes each associated with a probability of being provided during the tournament and said designated tournament game outcome being the same for each game played; (b) for each game played during the tournament, determining one of the tournament game outcomes to provide and providing said determined tournament game outcome; (c) after a plurality of the games have been played, determining if the designated tournament game outcome has been provided; (d) if the designated tournament game outcome has not been provided in the tournament, increasing the probability associated with said designated tournament game outcome; (e) determining if the designated tournament game outcome has been provided and repeating (d) until the designated tournament game outcome has been provided during the tournament; (f) after said designated tournament game outcome has been provided to one of the players in the tournament, enabling the plurality of players to each play at least one more game during the tournament; and (g) at the end of the tournament, determining a tournament winner based on the provided tournament game outcomes, said tournament winner selected from the player provided the designated tournament game outcome and the other plurality of players not provided the designated tournament game outcome.