Patent ID: 8684829

Claim:
A method of processing a side bet in a hybrid game having an entertainment game portion and a gambling game portion, the method comprising: accepting by the hybrid game from a player of the hybrid game, real world credits to be wagered in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game; presenting by the hybrid game to the player, a proposal of an entertainment game enabling element side bet regarding the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; monitoring by the hybrid game a player action of consuming the enabling element during the player's playing of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; triggering by the hybrid game a wager of the real world credits in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game based on the monitoring of the player action of consuming the enabling element during the player's playing of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; determining by the hybrid game an entertainment game enabling element outcome of the entertainment game enabling element side bet based on the monitoring of the player action of consuming the enabling element during the player's playing of the entertainment game portion of the hybrid game; determining by the hybrid game a real world credit outcome of the wager of the real world credits by executing the wager of the real world credits in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game; making by the hybrid game a payout of an amount of real world credits in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game based on the real world credit outcome of the wager in the gambling game portion of the hybrid game; and updating by the hybrid game a state of the entertainment game based on the outcome of the entertainment game enabling element side bet.