Methods of administering lammer-based wagers

A method of administering a wagering game, comprising:

• accepting a base game wager from a player to participate in a base game by receiving at least one physical, monetarily valuable wagering element in a player area on a layout of a gaming table, the base game involving placing one or more physical lammers on the layout of the gaming table in response to acceptance of one or more player instructions affecting game play of the base game or an occurrence of one or more chance events and the acceptance of the one or more player instructions affecting the game play of the base game in response to the occurrence of the one or more chance events;
• accepting a mandatory side wager from the player before any qualifying lammers can be placed on the layout by receiving at least another physical, monetarily valuable wagering element in the player area;
• conducting a single round of play of the base game;
• resolving the side wager by determining whether a number of qualifying lammers has been placed on the layout of the gaming table;
• and
• paying a payout on the side wager to the player in response to a presence of at least one qualifying lammer on the layout of the gaming table at a conclusion of the single round of play of the base game by transferring at least one physical, monetarily valuable wagering element to the player.

A method of administering a wagering game over a network utilizing a server comprising a processor, the method comprising:

• receiving at a server comprising a processor an electronic signal indicating that allocation of funds to a base game wager was authorized by a player to participate in a base game, the base game involving sending from the server an electronic signal instructing that one or more electronic images of lammers are to be displayed on a client device in response to an occurrence of one or more chance events, acceptance of one or more player instructions affecting game play of the base game, or the occurrence of the one or more chance events and the acceptance of the one or more player instructions affecting the game play of the base game in response to the occurrence of the one or more chance events;
• receiving at the server an electronic signal indicating that allocation of funds to a side wager was authorized by the player before any electronic images of qualifying lammers can be displayed;
• sending from the server, receiving at the server, or sending from the server and receiving at the server an electronic signal or electronic signals to conduct a single round of play of the base game;
• resolving the side wager by determining at the server whether any electronic signals instructing that a number of electronic images of qualifying lammers were to be displayed have been sent;
• and
• generating at the server an electronic signal indicating that payment of a payout on the side wager to the player is authorized in response to the sending of at least one electronic signal instructing that one or more electronic images of qualifying lammers were to be displayed at a conclusion of the single round of play of the base game.