Patent ID: 8403739

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising: (a) causing a processor to operate with a display device and an input device for a play of a poker game to: (i) receive an initial wager of a quantity of credits from a player to play a quantity of at least two poker hands, wherein the quantity of credits of the initial wager is greater than the quantity of poker hands and the initial wager is placed prior to displaying any cards of any of the poker hands; (ii) for each of the quantity of poker hands, display face-up a partial poker hand; (iii) automatically apply a first amount of at least one credit from the initial wager of credits to each of the displayed partial poker hands, wherein the sum of all the first amounts of credits is less than the quantity of credits of the initial wager; (iv) display individual probabilities for each of the quantity of partial poker hands winning in a final hand game against all of the other quantity of partial poker hands; (v) after displaying the partial poker hands face-up, enable the player to select one of the displayed partial poker hands; (vi) automatically apply a second amount of at least one credit from the initial wager of credits to the player selected partial poker hand, wherein the second amount of credits is equal to the initial wager of credits minus the sum of each of the first amounts of credits; and (vii) for each of the poker hands, determine and display a result; and (b) causing the processor to operate with the display device and the input device to provide any awards associated with said displayed results for the play of the poker game.