Patent ID: 8758106

Claim:
A gaming system comprising: at least one display device; at least one input device; at least one processor; and at least one memory device which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to: (a) display a plurality of playing cards to form a primary card hand and at least one secondary card hand, wherein said displayed playing cards are based on a selected predetermined game outcome associated with a predetermined payout amount, and different pluralities of said playing cards form a plurality of different card hands that are each associated with one of a plurality of payout amounts, (b) enable a player to select at least one of said displayed playing cards in at least one of the card hands to hold, (c) determine, based on the displayed playing cards selected by the player to hold in each card hand, a distribution of card game outcomes associated with a total payout amount equal to the predetermined payout amount of the selected predetermined game outcome, (d) assign each one of the displayed card hands one of the payout amounts of the determined distribution, (e) display, for each of the card hands, the playing cards which would result in the assigned payout amount for that card hand, and (f) provide the predetermined payout amount of the selected predetermined game outcome to the player.