Patent ID: 8602860

Claim:
A method, comprising: displaying, in a first region of a display of a gaming workstation, a pool hand comprising a plurality of face up cards, wherein the pool hand is not a played hand; displaying, in a second region of the display of the gaming workstation, a plurality of discrete, bounded placeholder areas for a playing hand arranged in a plurality of rows of placeholder areas and a plurality of columns of placeholder areas, wherein the first region differs from the second region; designating, using the gaming workstation, one or more held cards from among the plurality of face up cards of the pool hand; after designating the one or more held cards; changing a color of each card of the pool hand to indicate that the pool hand has been utilized; and reproducing the one or more held cards into each playing hand of a plurality of playing hands, wherein each playing hand of the plurality of playing hands is respectively associated within one discrete bounded placeholder area of the plurality of placeholder areas; completing the plurality of playing hands with new face up cards; displaying, using the display of the gaming workstation, the completed plurality of playing hands, wherein each completed playing hand is respectively displayed within the one placeholder area associated with the completed playing hand; and determining a ranking of each of the completed playing hands.