Patent ID: 8882586

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, comprising: receiving by the gaming system from a skill-based entertainment game coupled to the gaming system, a player action taken by a player of the entertainment game, the player action enabled via consumption of an enabling element of the skill-based entertainment game during the player's skillful play of the skill-based entertainment game; correlating by the gaming system, the consumption of the enabling element in the skill-based entertainment game with a correlated wager of real world credits in a gambling game of chance coupled to the gaming system; triggering by the gaming system, the correlated wager of real world credits in the gambling game of chance; receiving by the gaming system from the gambling game gambling game of chance, a gambling play result of real world credits of the correlated wager of real world credits in the gambling game of chance; and augmenting by the gaming system, the enabling element of the skill-based entertainment game correlated to the correlated wager in the gambling game of chance on the basis of the gambling play result of real world credits.