Patent ID: 8430735

Claim:
A method of providing an interactive wagering game, said method comprising: (a) causing at least one display device to display a play of an interactive game; (b) enabling a player to make at least one input in the play of interactive game; (c) causing at least one processor to determine any occurrence of at least one wager triggering event during the play of the interactive game, wherein the at least one wager triggering event can occur multiple times during the play of the interactive game; (d) for each determined occurrence of the at least one wager triggering event during the play of the interactive game: (i) causing the at least one processor to automatically cause a wager of one of a plurality of wager components funded by the player; (ii) causing the at least one processor to randomly determine a wagering outcome for said wager component independently of the interactive game; and (iii) causing the at least one processor to determine if said wagering outcome is associated with a wagering award from a plurality of wagering awards; (e) if the at least one processor determines that any of said wagering outcomes are associated with one of said wagering awards, causing the at least one display device to display said wagering award in a first location and then causing the at least one display device to display said wagering award in a second location; and (f) causing the at least one display device to display an interactive game outcome for the play of the interactive game.