Patent ID: 8550892

Claim:
A method of playing a poker card game with multiple pay lines and using a deck of playing cards comprising: a) providing a pay table which contains winning outcomes and awards associated with each winning outcome; b) a player making a wager to activate at least a first pay line and at least a second pay line to be played in the poker card game; c) displaying a first initial hand of cards face up corresponding to the first pay line; d) if the first initial hand comprises a predetermined arrangement of cards, randomly selecting a multiplier from a group of various multipliers for each activated pay line and assigning the selected multiplier to the activated pay line, e) selecting none, one or more of the face up cards from the first initial hand as cards to be held; f) reusing the cards to be held, if any, in a second initial hand corresponding to the second pay line; g) discarding from the first initial hand the cards that were not selected to be held and displaying replacement cards in the first initial hand for the discarded cards creating a first final hand; h) displaying additional cards, if necessary, into the second initial hand creating a second final hand; i) determining whether the outcome on each final hand pay line is a winning outcome; and j) providing to the player an award from the pay table for each pay line that has a winning outcome and modifying the award by the multiplier for that pay line.