Patent ID: 8353751

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming device, said method comprising: (a) enabling a player to use at least one input device to designate a wager amount for a play of a single card game; (b) causing a display device to display a plurality of cards face-down to form a plurality of two-card player hands and a plurality of two-card house hands from a virtual deck of playing cards for the play of the card game, wherein the play of the single card game includes each of the plurality of two-card player and two-card house hands; (c) sequentially for each two-card player hand: (i) revealing the cards in said two-card player hand; (ii) if said two-card player hand is not a final player hand or if the player has already placed a wager on a previous two-card player hand, enabling the player to either: (A) place a wager of the designated wager amount on said two-card player hand, or (B) fold said two-card player hand; (iii) if said two-card player hand is the final player hand and the player has not already placed a wager on a previous two-card player hand, requiring the player to place a wager of the designated wager amount on said two-card player hand; and (iv) for each two-card player hand folded by the player, folding one of the two-card house hands, (d) if the player places the wager of the designated wager amount on each and every one of the plurality of two-card player hands formed, cause the gaming device to play each and every one of the two-card house hands; (e) displaying five community cards face-up; (f) determining the rank of each wagered on two-card player hand and each non-folded two-card house hand by: (i) forming, for each of said two-card player hands, a final player hand including the highest ranking five card poker hand from the two cards in each said respective two-card player hand and the five community cards; and (ii) forming, for each of said non-folded two-card house hands, a final house hand including the highest ranking five card poker hand from the two cards in each said respective two-card house hand and the five community cards; and (g) providing a primary award to the player if the rank of at least one of the wagered on final player hands is greater than the rank of all of the non-folded final house hands, the primary award based, at least in part, on the total value of the placed wagers.