Patent ID: 8454017

Claim:
A method of playing a game at a gaming machine having at least one video display, and at least one player input device and a controller configured to execute the machine-readable code to cause said gaming machine to implement the steps of: displaying a field of cards having a face bearing card indicia and an opposing back in a face-down position via said at least one video display; dealing to a player a set of dealt cards and displaying said dealt cards via said at least one video display, the combination of dealt cards and cards in said field of cards comprising less than 52 cards and yielding at least one possible combination of a Royal Flush; accepting input via said at least one player input device regarding none, one or more or all of said dealt cards which said player wishes to discard; accepting selection via said at least one player input device from said field of cards a replacement card for each discarded card; forming a player hand from cards from said set of dealt cards not discarded along with any replacement cards and displaying said player hand via said at least one video display; and determining the outcome of said game by determining if said player hand is a winning hand.