Multi-draw poker game

Abstract

A poker style card game suitable for playing on a gaming machine is described. In the game an initial hand of cards is dealt and the player selects particular cards to be held in the hand. The game is characterised in that multiple new hands of held cards are then created wherein the held cards in each new hand are dependent on the held cards in the initial hand but are not identical to the held cards from the initial hand. Additional cards are then drawn to complete each of the hands, and prizes are paid for each hand according to a pay table. In one embodiment the cards in the multiple new hands have the same face value as the held cards but are in different suits. Preferably the “deck” of cards includes an additional suit of multi-suit cards which have a single face value e.g. 1 or 2 or 3 etc or Ace etc, but can be any of the four suits. Also disclosed is a variant in which the multiple new hands are dealt to the “same strategy” is that the extra hands of “held” cards reproduce the strategy adopted by the player. For example, if the player is going for an “of-a-kind” hand, four additional of-a-kind hands having the same number of cards are displayed.

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