Best hand video poker

An electronic poker game comprising a variation of five card draw poker that challenges a player to achieve a best hand from a series of specially configured draws, wherein the object of the game is to make the best possible five card poker hand from a series of three draws of seven cards, wherein the game utilizes basic rules common to five card draw poker and is played with a standard deck of approximately fifty two playing cards, and further wherein cards are presented in a three row pyramid, wherein the pyramid configuration permits the presentation of twelve cards displaying six cards in a bottom row, four cards in a middle row and two cards in a top row, and further wherein the pyramid of twelve card spaces is filled progressively by a player's selections from three draws of seven cards, and further wherein when the pyramid is complete with twelve cards selected by the player, the player is challenged to form his best five card poker hand;

• and further wherein a house's best hand then is selected from twenty one cards drawn during the game and compared to the player's best hand to determine the winner of the poker game.