Patent ID: 7500912

Claim:
A method including: (a) displaying a first set of card representations at a player station display device, the first set of card representations being organized into a number of card representation subsets, each containing two or more card representations comprising a respective individual starting hand mutually exclusive to the other subsets, and being displayed as visually grouped together but visually divided from the other subsets; (b) receiving an input from a player to select first and second ones of the number of subsets from the first set of card representations; (c) identifying a first and second result for the player based on one or more bingo game outcomes or predetermined outcome records; and (d) displaying a second set of card representations at the player station display device to combine with the first selected subset of the first set of card representations to produce an optimum poker hand consistent with the first result identified for the player, and to combine the second set of card representations with the second selected subset, being played as an additional starting hand, to produce a second optimum poker hand consistent with the second result identified for the player.