Patent ID: 8403740

Claim:
A method of operating a gaming system including a display device, the display device including a plurality of display segments each configured to display one of a plurality of different games, said method comprising: (a) during a participation period, for each of a plurality of players at one of a plurality of player stations, for each of the different games, causing at least one processor to execute a plurality of instructions to operate with at least one input device of said player station to enable said player to make at least one input to individually wager on a play of said different game; (b) after termination of the participation period, for each of the different games, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to: (i) randomly determine a game outcome; and (ii) independently determine if said randomly determined game outcome is a winning game outcome or a losing game outcome, wherein each of the determined game outcomes can be the winning game outcome or the losing game outcome; (c) causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with the display device to simultaneously display said plays of the different games on the display segments of the display device, said displayed plays of the different games including the randomly determined game outcomes for said different games; and (d) for each displayed play of each of the different games, for each player station at which any wager was placed on said play of said different game, causing the at least one processor to execute the plurality of instructions to operate with at least one player station display device of said player station to: (i) display the randomly determined game outcome associated with said wagered on play of said different game; and (ii) for each player who placed any wager at said player station on said wagered on play of said different game, display an award based on said displayed game outcome and an amount said player wagered on said wagered on play of said different game.