Patent ID: 8308543

Claim:
An electronic device for playing hands of a card game according to rules thereof utilizing data representing a deck of N playing cards comprising: a first data structure storing data representing each playing card of said deck; a processor, said processor configured to randomly arrange said playing card data into a random, serial order representing deck data; a video display; an interface configured for a player to make a wager and prompt play of the game; said processor, in response to prompting, configured to select and display at said display data from said first data structure representing a predetermined number of cards selected in order from said first data structure to define an initial holding; said processor completing said initial holding according to the rules thereof by at least one of (1) replacing at least one card of the initial holding or (2) selecting additional cards, said processor configured to select and display, at said display, data representing each replacement or additional cards selected in order from said first data structure to define a final outcome for the hand of play; said processor configured to display at said display data corresponding to the remaining constituency of said deck data depleted of said displayed card data; said processor further configured to display data that said depletion has eliminated a final outcome; said processor configured to determine if said final outcome is a winning or losing outcome and to issue an award for a winning combination; and said processor configured to restore depleted cards to said deck data if depleting dealt cards causes all cards each of a particular numerical value to be eliminated, wherein there are at least two particular numerical values eliminated, and wherein the particular numerical values are not wild.