Patent ID: 8016656

Claim:
A method for facilitating play of a card game, comprising: providing a gaming machine having a display, a user interface and a processor; providing a computer readable medium encoded with instructions and executed by the processor to perform the steps of: presenting a starting hand of cards on the display to enable the starting hand of cards to be collectively viewed; facilitating, via the user interface, player selection of zero, one or more of the cards to hold from the starting hand, and responsively indicating on the display which, if any, of the cards of the starting hand have been held relative to those that are to be discarded; presenting a plurality of replacement hands by concurrently displaying each of the replacement hands on the display, each of the plurality of replacement hands representing an alternative replacement hand available for use with only the same zero, one or more cards that the player selected from the starting hand that were held; facilitating player selection via the user interface of at least one of the replacement hands that are concurrently displayed on the display to replace only the cards that the player selected from the starting hand that were not held; creating, using the processor, a resulting hand of cards using only the same zero, one or more cards that were held and the at least one replacement hand selected by the player, and presenting the created resulting hand of cards via the display; and revealing the replacement hands that were not selected by the player on the display.