Patent ID: 7387568

Claim:
A gaming device comprising: an interactive poker game, wherein for each play of said interactive game, a predetermined game outcome which is either a winning game outcome or a losing game outcome is obtained from a finite pool of game outcomes; a plurality of playing cards in the interactive game, wherein for each interactive game, a set of first playing cards which corresponds to a first poker hand is formed from a plurality of said cards and a set of second playing cards which corresponds to a second poker hand is formed from a plurality of said cards, wherein each of said second playing cards is associated with a respective one of said first playing cards; a predetermined designation associated with at least one of said first playing cards, wherein said predetermined designation is either a hold designation or a replace designation; a display device adapted to display the interactive poker game; and a processor operable with said display device to control the play of the interactive poker game by: (a) displaying the set of first playing cards which correspond to the first poker hand; (b) enabling a player to designate at least one of said displayed first playing cards as either a hold or a replace; (c) if the player's designation of said first displayed playing card is consistent with the predetermined designation associated with said first playing card: (i) displaying the second playing card associated with at least one of the first playing cards, and (ii) providing said predetermined game outcome to the player, and (d) if the player's designation of said first displayed playing card is inconsistent with the predetermined designation associated with said first playing card: (i) displaying a modification of said first displayed playing card, wherein independent of the player's designation, said modification causes the displayed playing cards to correspond to the predetermined game outcome, and (ii) providing said predetermined game outcome to the player.