Patent ID: 8506394

Claim:
A method of presenting a tournament game on a gaming device, the method comprising: providing a base game in a normal, non-tournament mode; determining whether a player is eligible to play a tournament game; prompting the player to select multiple tournament games from a list of two or more available tournament games while the base game is active in the normal, non-tournament mode, wherein the player selects the multiple tournament games from the list of two or more tournament games for immediate initiation of tournament game play on demand, and wherein the tournament games are separate from the base game; continuing to receive player wagers for base game play while the tournament games are played; reconfiguring the gaming device from the normal mode to a tournament mode for the tournament games selected by the player; processing game play in the tournament mode using a processor and creating a final tournament score for the player; and reconfiguring the gaming device back into normal mode at the conclusion of the tournament games.