Patent ID: 8734221

Claim:
A wager gaming player polling server comprising: a communications interface; a memory; and a logic device, the logic device, the memory, and the communications interface operably connected and configured to: select a plurality of candidates for participation in a poll; receive input, via the communications interface, indicating a quantity of one or more voting points to be applied to a candidate in the plurality of candidates by each player in a plurality of players, wherein: the quantity of voting points for each player is drawn from one or more voting points associated with the player in response to one or more trigger events occurring during wagering game play of the player, and a finite number of voting points are available for association with the players; tally, for each candidate, a total number of voting points applied to the candidate by all of the players in the plurality of players; determine, based on the total number of voting points for each candidate, a first candidate of the plurality of candidates with a highest number of total voting points; and transmit, to an external device via the communications interface, candidate information and voting information based on voting point input received from one or more of the players in the plurality of players.