Patent ID: 8454420

Claim:
An apparatus for playing a wagering game, the apparatus comprising: an electronic input device; an electronic output device; a processing unit connected to the input device and the output device, the processing unit configured to perform: receiving an ante wager from a player; determining a bonus suit randomly and displaying the bonus suit, the bonus suit being chosen out of a set of suits comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; dealing cards from the deck(s) to the player which are part of a hand; determining a point total of the hand, the point total being determined by adding card values in the hand of each suit to determine each suit's point total and the point total is a highest point total out of each suit's point total; and paying the player a payout based on the point total, wherein if a point total of card values in the hand for cards with the bonus suit is the point total and equals a particular point total, then the payout is higher than if the point total does not use the bonus suit.