Patent ID: 8425297

Claim:
A method for playing a ticket-based game of chance comprising acts of: issuing a ticket to a player, the ticket including the ticket-based game of chance and having a code printed on a surface of the ticket; subsequent to issuing the ticket but prior to play, determining results of the ticket-based game of chance by an outcome generating server that stores ticket information; playing by a player a computer-based poker game on a different medium than the issued ticket, wherein the computer-based poker game is a different game than the ticket-based game of chance and includes a hand including a plurality of cards dealt to the player and play of a first hand and a second hand; arranging by the computer-based poker game the plurality of cards dealt into the first hand and the second hand such that the computer-based poker game comprises a game of skill wherein the player's arrangement of the cards determines a result of the computer-based poker game; and revealing by an interface of the computer-based poker game results of the ticket-based game of chance to the player, wherein the code is used to gain security access to the results of the ticket-based game of chance wherein the result of the computer-based poker game of skill does not influence the results of the ticket-based game of chance, wherein the game of chance producing a winning or losing result occurs regardless of a winning or losing result in the computer-based poker game and wherein the code is used to gain security access to play the computer-based poker game.