Abstract: The present invention provides for a poker game wherein the amount of successive wagers is pre-established. Each hand is preceded by players making at least one initial wager. A dealer also provides himself/herself with a plurality of cards and each player is displayed at least one card to form an initial partial hand. The players are given the opportunity to view their initial partial hands and are then required to increase their wagers by a predetermined amount in order to continue playing that hand. If the player increases his/her wager by the predetermined amount, then the player will be displayed at least one additional card. Various embodiments of the present invention require subsequent wagers in different amounts. For example, one embodiment requires a player to place two subsequent wagers in amounts equal to the player's initial wager in order to complete the hand. Alternative embodiments require players to make more than three subsequent wagers in equal amounts in order to complete the hand.

Abstract: A gaming device and method in which a player, after having enabled the machine with a wager, is exposed to a conventional blackjack or twenty-one display on a video monitor. The player receives two cards face up and the dealer receives one card face up and one card face down. The player then has the option of continuing to play the blackjack hand to its conclusion. Should the blackjack game be continued unimpeded, an award is based on conventional blackjack rules. This includes adding cards to approach or equal the numeric value twenty-one. Should the player instead embark upon draw poker, the dealer's cards (initially one card face up and one card face down) are removed from view on the video monitor. In this alternative, the player will keep the two face up cards that have already been dealt the player and receive three additional face up cards and then embark upon a game of draw poker.

Abstract: A slot machine is modified to identify subsets of related symbols in a randomly selected set of symbols. The symbols within the subset can then be directed to wheels or other movable visual displays in an order such that related symbols will appear first to a player. A deciding symbol will be indexed on the last wheel to reach a stationary position. Slowing of the speed at which symbols are displayed to a player on the final wheel to be indexed further adds to the anticipation and suspense of playing the enhanced games. Additional enhancement of play on the slot machine can be achieved by optically extending the viewed area of one or more rotating wheels.