Patent ID: 8727858

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 voting points to apply towards a candidate in the plurality of candidates, wherein at least some of the quantity of voting points is drawn from one or more voting points associated with a player in response to one or more trigger events occurring during wagering game play of the player, the player included in a plurality of 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 total number of 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.