Patent ID: 8662985

Claim:
A gaming apparatus, comprising: a primary display area operable to display a base game to a player; a wager data device operable to receive wager data indicative of a wager submitted by the player; a secondary display area separate from the primary display area and operable to display a parallel secondary game to the player, the parallel secondary game comprising multiple qualification rounds and a final championship round; and a controller operatively coupled to the primary display area, the wager data device, and the secondary display area, the controller comprising a processor and a memory, the controller being operable to: display results of the base game to the player on the primary display area; convert credits earned in the base game to game points in the parallel secondary game, while the base game is being played; display results of the parallel secondary game to the player on the secondary display area while the base game is being played, wherein the results are displayed in relation to predetermined game point levels for each qualification round of the parallel secondary game; and determine, based on the achieved game point levels and the predetermined game point levels for each qualification round of the parallel secondary game, whether to advance the player to a subsequent qualification round of the parallel secondary game or to end the parallel secondary game.