Patent ID: 8070582

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a deposit of gaming credits from a player; receiving a request from the player to engage in the play of a plurality of games on behalf of the player, wherein the request identifies a last game after which a gaming device will engage in no further games that are associated with the request; generating, prior to the last game, a first intermediate outcome of a first game of the plurality of games; making by a computer system, a first decision on behalf of the player in the first game, without input from the player; generating a first final outcome of the first game based on the first intermediate outcome and based on the first decision; determining a first payout for the player based on the first final outcome; generating, prior to the last game, a second intermediate outcome of a second game of the plurality of games; determining that the second intermediate outcome satisfies one or more criteria, in which the one or more criteria includes a chance that a possible payout above a first threshold may result from the second decision; in response to determining that the second intermediate outcome satisfies the one or more criteria, soliciting, by the computer system and from the player, a second decision to be made by the player in the second game; receiving the second decision from the player; generating a second final outcome of the second game based on the second intermediate outcome and based on the second decision; determining a second payout for the player based on the second final outcome; and providing a payment to the player based on the first payout and the second payout.