Tournament entry mechanisms within a gambling integrated game or skill wagering interleaved game

A casino electronic game machine providing a tournament entry mechanism in a gambling hybrid game that includes an entertainment game and a gambling game, comprising:

• a real credit operating system comprising:
• a real world credit meter;
• a random number generator;
• and
• a real world credit pay table, wherein the real credit operating system is configured to:
• receive real world credit from a portable media, wherein the portable media includes at least one member of a group including currency, a voucher and a smart card;
• and
• provide a randomly generated payout of real world credits from a wager of real world credits in the gambling game using the random number generator and real world credit pay table;
• augment an amount of real world credits stored in the real world credit meter based on the randomly generated payout of real world credits to the real world credit meter;
• an entertainment game system constructed to:
• execute the entertainment game to resolve a random event in the entertainment game to generate random event results;
• provide the random event results to a game world operating system;
• and
• update a display screen with tournament ticket information;
• the display screen configured to:
• display the random event results of the wagers;
• and
• display the tournament ticket information;
• a user input device configured to receive from a player a wagering amount to use during game play;
• and
• the game world operating system constructed to:
• determine an occurrence of a gambling event in the gambling game based on play of the entertainment game executed by the entertainment game system;
• request a resolution to the gambling event by the real credit operating system;
• determine gambling results based upon the random event results;
• determine tournament tickets to provide to a player account based on gameplay of the entertainment game and the result of the gambling event;
• update the player account with the tournament ticket information and send the tournament ticket information to the entertainment game system;
• provide the gambling results to the entertainment game system for use in executing the entertainment game.