Patent ID: 8226460

Claim:
A method for conducting a wagering game for a player in accordance with the rules of a base game defining a winning hand, comprising: defining, by a computing device, a finite set of game indicia; conducting a game hand for said player comprising: (a) receiving, by the computing device, a wager from said player; (b) dealing, by the computing device, game indicia to said player from said finite set cumulatively excluding all game indicia dealt in previous game hands, if any; (c) conducting, by the computing device, said game hand for said player to completion according to said base game and resolving said wager based at least in part on whether said game hand forms a winning hand; (d) collecting, by the computing device, all dealt game indicia from said player and excluding collected game indicia accumulated with all game indicia dealt in previous game hands, if any, from play in a subsequent game hand; and (e) displaying, by the computing device to the player, at least one of: the inventory of said game indicia from said finite set cumulatively excluding all game indicia dealt in previous game hands or winning hands eliminated as a result of said excluded game indicia; conducting, by the computing device, at least one additional sequential game hand of steps (a)-(e) using said finite set cumulatively excluding dealt game indicia until a restoration event, said restoration event including an exclusion of dealt game indicia such that all values used in a game hand are eliminated; and upon a restoration event, restoring, by the computing device, excluded game indicia to said finite set and conducting at least one additional sequential game hand using said restored finite set.