Patent ID: 8277309

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving from a player a payment for a wagering session, the session encompassing a plurality of game plays of a wagering game, wherein the payment is not greater than a sum of wagers available to be made in the wagering session; facilitating the session of the wagering game at a gaming device by establishing a balance of credits available to a player of the gaming device for wagering on the wagering game, thereby establishing a wagering balance, wherein the wagering balance is decreased as a result of wagers placed by the player on the wagering game and is increased as a result of credits won by the player during play of the wagering game; setting, as a term of the session, a minimum balance of credits of the wagering balance that will be dispensed to a player at an end of the session, the minimum balance being greater than zero; determining the end of the session; determining the wagering balance at the end of the session; and authorizing a dispensing of a greater of the wagering balance at the end of the session and the minimum balance.