Patent ID: 8277299

Claim:
A video poker game comprising: means for allowing a player to place a wager on a poker hand; a video display screen for displaying the poker hand of at least five cards face up from a standard deck; means for displaying a first pay table on the video screen; means for calculating a second pay table based on the probabilities of all possible hands that may be obtained from discarding none, one or more of the poker hand's at least five cards, and replacing them with new cards from the deck; means for displaying the second pay table on the video screen; means for allowing the player to increase the wager on the poker hand a first amount after the player has observed the second pay table; player input means for allowing the player to select none, one or more of the face up cards from the poker hand as cards to be held; means for discarding from the poker hand those cards not selected and replacing the non selected cards with face up cards from the deck; means for calculating a third pay table based on the probabilities of all possible hands that may be obtained from discarding none, one or more of the poker hand's at least five cards, and replacing them with new cards from the deck; means for displaying the third pay table on the video screen; means for allowing the player to increase the wager on the poker hand a second amount greater than the first amount after the player has observed the third pay table; and means for determining the poker hand and awarding the player an amount based on the first pay table if the player did not increase the wager and an amount based on the second pay table if the player did increaser the wager the first amount and an amount based on the third pay table if the player increased the wager the second amount.