Patent ID: 8657290

Claim:
A method of providing a game of cards at a gaming machine, comprising: providing at least one deck of playing cards containing at least one bonus card as the deck of cards by the gaming machine; providing a first hand of the game to the player by the gaming machine; repeating a first loop for a current hand in the card game comprising the steps of: accepting a wager by the gaming machine from a player for the current hand in the card game; repeating a second loop by the gaming machine as long as the player elects to be dealt more cards from the deck of cards for the player's current hand, the second loop comprising: dealing one or more cards by the gaming machine from the deck of cards to the player for his current hand, the cards for the player's current hand dealt separately for any cards that were previously dealt during the previous first hand; evaluating by the gaming machine the current hand of the player to determine whether the player won; if the player won, determining by the gaming machine whether this win was a bonus win; and if this win was a bonus win, and the player has a bonus card dealt to the player by the gaming machine during the previous first hand, then paying the player at bonus odds by the gaming machine, otherwise paying the player at regular odds.