Gaming devices and methods for enhancing gaming payouts based on matched game play predictions

A method of operating a video poker gaming machine including a cabinet, a display mounted to the cabinet and configured to display poker games to a player of the video poker gaming device, a player input device attached to the cabinet and configured to receive inputs from a player, a wager input device mounted to the cabinet and structured to receive physical items associated with a currency value, a memory housed inside the cabinet and configured to store a credit amount as well as at least one virtual deck of cards and a current predicted card suit, and a processor housed inside the cabinet, the method comprising:

• receiving a signal that a physical item has been received by the wager input device;
• incrementing the credit amount in the memory based on the currency value associated with the received physical item;
• receiving a signal to initiate a poker gaming event in response to placement of a wager, the wager decreasing the credit amount;
• dealing a first poker hand including a first plurality of poker cards;
• identifying a dealt card suit for a poker card of the first plurality of poker cards that is dealt to a particular position of the first poker hand;
• comparing the current predicted card suit and the dealt card suit;
• if the comparison results in a match of the current predicted card suit and the dealt card suit, awarding a random multiplier;
• identifying a first poker result of playing the first poker hand, and award a first poker result payout if the identified first poker result corresponds to a predetermined poker result having the first poker result payout associated therewith;
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• increasing the first poker result payout based on the awarded multiplier obtained in connection with play of the first poker hand, if the multiplier was awarded in connection with play of the first poker hand as a result of the current predicted card suit and the dealt card suit matching.